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DESCRIPTION:\nFilm evenings begin with potluck refreshments and social hour at  6:30 
 pm,\nfollowed by the film at  7:30 pm, followed by a discussion after the 
 film.\n\nAll Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace\nEpisode I\nby Adam 
 Curtis\n\nThis is a series of three documentary films by renown director 
 Adam Curtis about how humans have been colonized by the machines they have 
 built.  Adam Curtis will show us that, although we don’t realize it, the 
 way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of computers.  
 His film series claims that computers have failed to liberate us and 
 instead have distorted and simplified our view of the world around 
 us.\n\nToday we see Episode I: Love and Power. Adam Curtis tracks the 
 effects of Ayn Rand‘s Objectivist ideas on American financial markets, 
 particularly via the influence on Alan Greenspan.  Starting by examining 
 our current era of supposed economic, social, and online freedoms, Adam 
 Curtis manages to join the dots between Ayn Rand, Alan Greenspan, the 
 IMF’s involvement in East Asia, radical Islam, and Silicon Valley’s 
 economic boom.  This Episode posits the idea that eccentric 
 Russian-American author and philosopher Ayn Rand (1905 – 1982) is the 
 spiritual grandmother of our modern social and economic system and its 
 global networks, and shows how her ideas and beliefs have indirectly 
 destabilised global financial systems, wrecking economies, and bringing on 
 the Global Financial Crisis in 2008 through the so-called California 
 Ideology adopted by the Silicon Valley IT community.\n\nAyn Rand espoused a 
 philosophy that decried religion, philosophy, and all other belief systems 
 as forms of control by which elites kept the masses in psychological and 
 physical slavery and which argued that individual pursuit of self-interest 
 and happiness alone would result in stable societies and peace.  Ayn 
 Rand’s ideas attracted several followers, known as The Collective, of 
 whom one was Alan Greenspan, the future U.S. Chairman of the Federal 
 Reserve and finance czar to the Clinton government in the 1990s. Her 
 philosophy appealed to people working in information technology, the 
 finance industry, politics, and economics.  And the notion that computer 
 networks could monitor and stabilise financial and economic systems and 
 networks, bolstered by some dodgy human psychology experiments and other 
 research in game theory, probability, and risk management, caught on.  With 
 computers controlling and stabilising the global finance industry, people 
 become free to follow their dreams and find happiness as Randian 
 heroes.\n\nWheelchair accessible around the corner at  411  28th  
 Street\n\n$5 donations are accepted\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/10/30/18696202.php
SUMMARY:All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
LOCATION:Humanist Hall\n390  27th  Street\nuptown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway\nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/10/30/18696202.php
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