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Can we get some sort of synopsis? :) Looks interesting, and I saved it for later.
It's a strange documentary. Seems like a collage of ideas, all of which relate, but none of which are integral to the other parts. Never seen a doc like it. Silicon valley entrepreneurs, Ayn Rand, world power, economics, the internet, Bill Clinton and more.
Good enough that I look forward to watching the next in the series. It's novel and thought provoking.
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Part two, "The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts," is here: http://hubski.com/pub?id=1802 , and part three, "The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey," is here: http://hubski.com/pub?id=1803 .
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Thanks! I watched the whole thing. #2 and #3 really deserve their own comments as BBC apparently has 'license to kill' facts. This series was over the top even by their standards.
The visual and aural collage of the narrative background also deserves its very own blog post #2 is specially laughable as one can nearly plot the cyclical sequence ('happy hopeful sounds and images' -> 'horror movie sounds and distorted images of nature').
From the BBC's Web site:
"Love and Power" is the story of two perfect worlds. One is the small group of disciples around the novelist Ayn Rand in the 1950s who saw themselves as a prototype for a future society where everyone could follow their own selfish desires. The other is the global utopia that digital entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley set out to create in the 1990s.