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03-27-2011, 05:30 PM
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BBC "The Trap" (2007) - how paranoia became part of this culture
We just rediscovered a great video series from the BBC - I don't know if you all have seen it before as it is from 2007, if not I think it is a great watch (3 parts a 60 min)
The Trap - 1 - F*k You Buddy The title is "The Trap" and it describes very detailled how a mechanistic worldview and specifically a mechanistic view of humans in the shape of "game theory" invented by a paranoid schizophrenic during the cold war became the foundation for our current society, picture of human nature and general worldview, including concepts like neoliberalism, free markets, globalization, individualism. I find it is a viable exploration of how even more insanity crept into this culture and shaped it into a even more crazy form of industrial capitalism. I also find the part on the Yanomami indians very interesting - they first serve as an example of how indigenous people also are violent, selfish and brutal - but later (in part 2) that is resolved...(I'm not going to spoiler it  )Enjoy and be amazed on how strange ideas can creep into the general culture and how good intentions can easily turn into the worst results when combined with wrong and simplified models.
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Know your idols: Who said "Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs.". (Solution: "Mahatma" Ghandi) Stop terraforming Earth (wordpress) "Humans are storytellers. These stories then can become our reality. Only when we loose ourselves in the stories they have the power to control us. Our culture got lost in the wrong story, a story of death and defeat, of opression and control, of separation and competition. We need a new story!" 
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