All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace Part 1 of 3
TITLE: Love and Power

In the first episode, Curtis traces the effects of Ayn Rand's ideas on American financial markets, particularly via the influence on #Alan #Greenspan.

Ayn Rand moved to New York and set up a reading group called The Collective where they considered her work. On advice from a friend, Greenspan (then a logical positivist) joined The Collective.

When published, although critically savaged, Rand's Objectivist ideas were popular, and influenced people working in the technology sector of California. The Californian Ideology, that computer networks could:

- measure - control - stabilize societies - remove political control
People would work only for their own happiness, a utopian belief that became widespread in Silicon Valley.

Greenspan entered government in the 70s, and became Chairman of the Federal Reserve. In 1992, he visited the newly elected Bill Clinton. He persuaded him to let the markets grow, cut taxes, and to let the markets stabilize themselves with the help of computer technology, to create the New economy. This involved using computer models to predict risks and hedge against them, in accordance with the Californian Ideology.

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All Watched Over by Machines Of Loving Grace Part 2 of 3
TITLE: The Use And Abuse Of Vegetational Concepts

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 in an attempt to build societies without central control, self organizing networks built of people, based on a fantasy view of nature.

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All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace Part 3 of 3
TITLE: The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey

This episode looks into the selfish gene theory invented by William Hamilton, which holds that humans are machines controlled by genes. Curtis also covers 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.

Richard Dawkins took the equations and popularised them and explained that humans are -simply machines- created by the selfish genes. In a sense, reinventing the immortal soul, but as computer code in the form of the genes.

By this point Hamilton was well-honoured. However, by now he supported eugenics. He heard a story that HIV had been created from an accident with a polio vaccine, which it was thought could have been contaminated with a chimp virus.

Curtis ends the episode by saying that Hamilton's ideas that humans are computers controlled by the genes have become accepted wisdom. But he asks whether we have accepted a fatalistic philosophy that humans are helpless computers to explain and excuse the fact that, as in the Congo, we are effectively unable to improve and change the world.

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"You cannot run a planetary society on the total irresponsible sovereignty of 120 different governments."

A look at how the Club of Rome used apocalyptic 1970s computer modelling to conclude that, in order "to avoid the threat of global collapse", the world's population, industrial activity and economic growth must be brought to an abrupt halt.

Which is exactly what we're witnessing unfold now, under the banner of Net Zero and UN Agenda 2030.

From the Adam Curtis documentary, 'All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace.' https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02myi2gbdtjxxvPgZ5sFcrsitDkgynQNUcxg6mMwkobPtZPRwVNkmApMqeYBVo6oLNl&id=1546537456&mibextid=vtBCz2&paipv=0&eav=AfZ2yxWytX9YJLm5taoE2mTA8Phct91TOGHnt6-1E1x73G4XtNPhyktIW94TZ6NESQc&_rdr
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A Clip From "Climate: The Movie (The Cold Truth)"
Has there been an increase in extreme weather events, hurricanes, wildfires, droughts etc?
No! https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02dnKLmcv3PbRj5Db227Mt7vpFnmdFqfQWp3mDCdHgfGP47czJfsvwkrWPDd5GhCCel&id=1546537456&paipv=0&eav=AfY1QQBxpoS1fzAT47QZ36-NGM8zI_AHARRf2qJfiuXG8RZy94ZpqHywcucBZfeZ2QI&_rdr
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A Clip From "Climate: The Movie (The Cold Truth)"

CO2 levels have been much higher in the geological past, over 7,000 ppm during the time of the dinosaurs, 2,000 ppm when mammals first evolved and over 1,000 ppm when mammals became the dominant form of life on Earth after the K-T extinction event.

We are currently in a CO2 drought, in fact, we came dangerously close to the extinction of all life on Earth when CO2 levels dropped to a record low of 180 ppm during the last ice age. If CO2 levels drop to 150 ppm all plant life on earth will go extinct. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0qmmVwRy2gFJ3pF9qqoeW8XsGY6bw8UGByCAdPq4ASPC3xhESy4a5wCXcTNfto6Dul&id=1546537456&paipv=0&eav=AfayXLWY5NJH7uWogGYtnMi7wJyvZD-gf1OVryx6JoKxFibJYEHspmreIBEOED23pgc&_rdr
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A Clip From "Climate: The Movie (The Cold Truth)"

The Geological History Of The Earth's Climate.

Temperatures have been much warmer in the past, and during those periods life, including human civilisation, thrived.

The Northern Hemisphere at least was 2ºC warmer 3,000 years ago, and 2.5ºC warmer 4,000 years ago (GISP2 ice core data.)

So why is a temperature increase of 1.5ºC above current levels a major concern? https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02s7k3nuwx6pPbzUo5vTJTrEo9YKbv3RbnWDsxkqHchaC5Am7kaLuJWUMRE25rj7uAl&id=1546537456&paipv=0&eav=Afb_v1CeH1vKJUK9Q-z1Zb2-ip6ksdi_dE4pUTTQnsPLHP39jXOLoPWeY0g26-EJUvM&_rdr
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A Clip From "Climate: The Movie (The Cold Truth)"

The urban heat island effect, falsified temperature records and the dodgy hockey stick graph: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid08DW1SYy1ZZHy5JKuzBYck44iPbHPAKDQDuJuNktGMG8KLBnTc5vsdPsY3EcJWH4vl&id=1546537456&paipv=0&eav=AfZzePkeZWnuo1ahQ4taQZp8LAVUBHpxplScTp7fSTlKMEhitq1Kha0rfz6tzRKpqAc&_rdr

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