This got played on terrestrial radio in the UK in 2013. This original program is 3 hours long and is divided into tracks. The last track in the program is the 80 min. version of the entire program in one file.

This is a psychedelically mashed up mix of material about control, love, power, technological hubris, and the effects and consequences of 'The New Economy' as envisioned by the followers of Ayn Rand. It's kind of an artistically annotated (or augmented) version of a very good Adam Curtis documentary called 'All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace'. Adam Curtis documentaries are excellent in general.

Will mankind forever be a puppet to those in power? Can it overcome the force of it's own selfish desires? Will mankind ever be free, and if not, who pulls the strings?

With material from Adam Curtis' 'All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace' sprinkled throughout, and inter-cut with commenting musical asides by Negativland, Rush, NIN, Metallica, Lewis Black, Bill Hicks, The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theater, Kukla Fran and Ollie, The Powder Puppet Pals, Janor Hypercleats as Mr. TV, Puzzling Evidence, Hal Robins, John Mayer, Shari Lewis and Lambchop, John Mayer, The Doors, James and Bobby Purify, Sandy Shaw, Echo & The Bunnyman, Devo, Harry Chapin, The Bran Flakes, Stallio! (Animals Within Animals), Go Home Productions and more!

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