There was a series from BBC on USA television in the 1970s that I fondly recall but I'd forgotten the impact it had on me... I've been able to review a few episodes, so I will very much recommend it now. Consider it a mind-expanding exercise in product development.
The series is clearly anti-catholic in a pre-Pope John Paul II way, it assumes a one world government is necessary and inevitable, and relentlessly points out the threat from nuclear war for mankind (now, of course it is Moslems who are our "problem"). No series was going to get on the BBC and sold to USA govt TV stations if it did not make those points editorially. There was no internet yet, which makes his points all the more tantalizing, since the internet would be another example of his points.
Nonetheless, the content is excellent and enjoyable, and aside from those archaic notions, timeless. The host, James Burke, clearly understands freedom as a premise to progress. Like a good teacher, he is also very funny.
A particularly good episode is here...
since the point, apropo our situatation today, every disaster opens new opportunities...
And here is a website offering the whole series.
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In an amazing clip the end of the series, Burke argues for what he calls "balanced anarchy"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB8_wPei2ZM
Wow... the Scots inherited a fantastic tradition in anarchy... what Aquinas would call an accident.
I actively disagree with many of his points and characterizations (medieval arguments about angels dancing on the head of a pin where discussions about infinity using common ideas to illustrate complex points.) But nonetheless his work is overwhelming good and instructive. As bad as it might get, opportunities galore.
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