all posts on March 26th, 2007


Part III of The Trap

In the last part of his documentary, Adam Curtis completed his thesis illustrating how a particular idea of freedom (Berlin’s negative freedom) led to the pursuit of over-zealous policies in post-Communist Russia and Iraq.
The idea is fairly cogent; negative liberty, as pursued most vociferously by rigid libertarians, contends that ‘freedom from…’ is more important than […]