All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace: great new BBC2 series
If you missed the first part of documentary-maker Adam Curtis’ new BBC2 series last night, catch it on iplayer while you can. It’s wonderful: a fabulous, high octane, skillfully-edited mix of politics, philosophy, technology and cyberspace.
I’m gutted to admit that I’d never heard of cult novelist Ayn Rand before, nor her ideas around “objectivism” – a kind of laissez faire capitalism, enabled by machines (if I had, she would have definitely featured in Monkeys with Typewriters).
The fact that Rand was a major influence on Alan Greenspan, the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States, is an eye-opener. And this programme makes a strong connection between her ideas, Greenspan’s undermining of the global economy and, ultimately, the 2008 stock market crash.
Brilliant stuff.
Watch it – watch it now!
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