Adam Curtis, I have long enjoyed the work of Adam Curtis, I enjoy his quirky use of old movive clips interspersed with shaky cam news footage, often with post rock soundtracks from God speed you! Black emperor and Siver mount Zion.
In 2007 his last documentary esxplained how western society became infleunced and eventually trapped by a simplistic model of behaviour developed by econmists and John Nash, the Paranoid Schizophreniac, Game Theory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAluyt5_kic
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Great post, Tom, and you won;t be surprised to learn that we considered showing The Trap in one of the practicals but there wasn;t enough time in the end... really good stuff on the development of the consumer society. But how do we get out of the trap?
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