The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom - Season 1 - Eps 1: Fuck You, Buddy
In this episode, Curtis examines the rise of game theory during the Cold War and the way in which its mathematical models of human behaviour filtered into economic thought with particular reference to the work of John Nash, who believed that all humans were inherently suspicious and selfish creatures that strategised constantly.
About The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom
Title: The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom
First Air Date: 2007-03-11
Last Air Date: 2007-03-25
Status: Ended
Rating: 8.027/10 (from 37 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 1
Total Episodes: 3
Network: BBC Two
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: BBC
Synopsis
Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It's what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and, repeatedly, we have gone to war to impose freedom around the world. But if you step back and look at what freedom actually means for us today, it's a strange and limited kind of freedom.
Cast
Adam Curtis
Narrator
Yevgeny Kiselyov
Self
Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage)
Tony Blair
Self (archive footage)
Boris Yeltsin
Self (archive footage)
Vladimir Putin
Self (archive footage)
Margaret Thatcher
Self (archive footage)
Bill Clinton
Self (archive footage)
