Cold War nuclear strategists once tried to model the Soviet enemy as a rational, self-interested actor, and Adam Curtis's three-part series argues that model escaped the war room and became the blueprint for modern freedom. The series traces game theory and behaviorist psychology into psychiatry, where Prozac and self-diagnosed symptom checklists turn ordinary mood swings into treatable disorders, and into anthropology, where Curtis revisits Tim Asch and Napoleon Chagnon's Yanomamo film 'The Ax Fight' and questions Chagnon on camera about whether the violence they filmed was staged by the crew's own presence. Richard Dawkins explains his selfish gene theory as further proof that humans behave like calculating machines, an idea Curtis follows straight into Thatcher and Blair-era policy: police reclassifying crimes as suspicious incidents to lower statistics, NHS wards inventing a