Century of self by Adam Curtis

I've been hearing about Adam Curtis, but never had time to sit down and watch his documentaries till yesterday.

Century of self is a in depth observation over after world war 2 period when the focus on human mind gained its importance to treat the psychological aftermath of the war. Starting from Freud, who started to look into the human mind, the of psychology develops into the idea that psychology can be controlled by tuning the environment and make the people behave based upon the required conducts. By the way, all of these experiment and research are starting from the premise that human beings are evil deep inside. (i know i am. are u?)

In the end, the whole experiment and effort turned out in vain. Marylin Monroe committed a suicide and the type of psychotherapy she was getting was one of those - re programming the subconscious. Lots of brainwashing experiments were never successful either. Eventually what they figured out was that human mind is way more complex than mere system.

What interests me in this specific episode is the idea that human conscious can be controlled and programmed, which is coming from the idea that everyone is same. Now, with the same tools that is available, we are required to use the same code to communicate and be connected in the net. But aren't we losing our ability of being human? We were the creator of machine yet we are required to speak and think like machine to be part of it.

For me, being a human beings, yes, there are some factors in biological way that can be analyzed in bits and pieces. But the sum of bits and pieces are not exact but more. It's like 1+1=4 or maybe 10. Human possibilities are limitless, and it is such a pity that the technology or social systems are the one that equalizes us as simplified matter.