All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
2011 · 1 season · 3 episodes · Ended · BBC Two
Documentary, War & Politics
TMDB 8.3 · 54 votes
We have been colonised by the machines we have built. Although we don't realise it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers.
Episodes
- S01E01Love and Power2011-05-2360m
In the first episode, Curtis tracks the effects of Ayn Rand's ideas on American financial markets, particularly via the influence on Alan Greenspan.
- S01E02The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts2011-05-3060m
This episode investigates how machine ideas such as cybernetics and systems theory were applied to natural ecosystems, and how this relates to the false idea that there is a balance of nature. Cybernetics has been applied to human beings to attempt to build societies without central control, self organising networks built of people, based on a fantasy view of nature.
- S01E03The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey2011-06-0659m
This programme looked into the selfish gene theory which holds that humans are machines controlled by genes which was invented by William Hamilton. Adam Curtis also covered the source of ethnic conflict that was created by Belgian colonialism's artificial creation of a racial divide and the ensuing slaughter that occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is a source of raw material for computers and cell phones.
