The Trap on “Strategies” & New Media
Loading ...While watching this documentary I stumbled upon a couple issues that I was readily intrigued in. This mostly surrounds itself around John Nash and Rands Corporations conception of game theory. Game theory was designed as a means of studying your opponents move, learning their state of mind so that you can follow suit and predict their decisions. I found it fascinating that during the cold war we built weapons of mass destruction, such as nuclear and bio-chemical warfare, as a means not to go to war, does that make sense? when thinking of it from the game theory point of view it seems to make to much sense. This all ties itself into social beings and how they function on a societal platforms. ‘The Trap’ states we live in a modern society driven by suspicion and self interest. Adam Curtis paints a vivid picture of a world driven by these bleak theories, he points out that they all converge at some point.
In the 1970’s John Nash (game theorist) and psychiatrist R.D. Lang’s theories began to overlap. This aided in producing a widespread notion that government and state interference is all a means of control. The internet can be viewed as a modern day measure of control as well. Such things as cell phones, computers, and gprs builds an illusion of greater freedom when in reality we are being surveilled these days more than ever. It allows governments to track emails, phone conversations, and even driving locations. It equates to a ‘new’ form of control where our access to communication is instantaneous, however our suspicions are greater than ever. Living in this new century can often feel like living in a societal cold war of some sort. At times it can feel overwhelming to never be able to escape the strong hold that technology has on us.
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