Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth

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Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth

7.9 | 1h17m | en | Documentary

THE LOTTERY OF BIRTH is the first in a three-part documentary series entitled 'Creating Freedom' exploring the relationship between freedom, power and control in Western democracies. The series draws together interviews with some of the world's leading intellectuals, journalists and activists to offer an alternative perspective on today's society and the future we're creating. We do not choose to exist, or the environment we grow up in. Our starting point in life is one of passive reliance on forces over which we have no control. THE LOTTERY OF BIRTH shows that from birth onwards our minds are a battleground of competing forces: familial, educational, cultural, and professional. The outcome of this battle not only determines who we become, but the society that we create.

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Released: June. 21,2013 | Released Producted By: , Country: Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://www.creatingfreedom.info/

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Cast

Howard Zinn , Vandana Shiva , Steven Pinker

Director

Raoul Martinez

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Howard Zinn

Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth I Am Ethos PsyWar: The Real Battlefield Is Your Mind ReGeneration The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers In Prison My Whole Life Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train

Vandana Shiva

Food Evolution SEED: The Untold Story The True Cost Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth Queen of the Sun This Is What Democracy Looks Like

Steven Pinker

Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World Creating Freedom: The Lottery of Birth The Genius of Charles Darwin

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mohancraig I am not a hippie conformist and in fact I think they are wrong most of the time but I can admit that the window through which most of us us view the world is very narrow and I think it would benefit us all to expand our understanding of the world, this movie poses some very enlightened concepts that in my mind should be part of the regular college curricula as it is in many of the more enlightened countries around the world.After I watched the film (for free on Hulu) I decided to leave a comment but they only accept comments from face-book or yahoo although while I was reviewing the comments some guy was calling fans of the film "pinkos" which doesn't make any sense since the film expressly calls for free thought and damns closed cultures that dictate preconceived dictates. I would have argued the stupidity of his argument but I don't have a face-book account.I encourage everyone to watch this film at least once as it revolves around the quote of the once great Mahatma Gandhi "You must be the change you wish to see in the world". Nuff said.

marycullison Two hours of my life I can never get back. Almost feel bad for these self-important people who are trying to justify their own success. Would almost be funny if I wasn't fully aware that many will buy into the crap in this movie. Trying to make people who have less or have nothing feel that it is okay, it wasn't their fault. They had no control over the outcome of life. These are obviously people with out faith in a creator and are to self absorbed to even consider that there is a God. While there are a few moments of truth in the movie ( the fact that we often create the "stories" of our history to portray what we want) those moments are few and far between. Don't waste your time.

bschafer710 Just when I think the right wing has a corner on the market on silliness, I run across a movie like this that reminds me that silliness knows no political affiliation. This is truly one of the funniest (unintentionally) movies I have watched in some time. I am proud I had the stomach to see it through. Howard Zinn asserting that he is proudly biased, then claiming objectivity. Assertions that Britain has participated in the deaths of 10 million people and that it is in the same league as Stalin, but we just don't recognized it because we are blinded by patriotism. These academics and journalists are a testament to the tolerance of western democracies, God bless them (as they say in the southern US). Please watch this and be reassured that we are all crazy.

nevproth Made me think and use my brain for a second. What I got out of this is that I need to Question more. Why? I think we question a lot of things as a child, and then we just STOP questioning. I don't know why that happens? We need to still question. Just because we are taught something doesn't mean it is right. I will question myself and others more often. I will be more patient answering my children's questions, but encourage them to seek out their own answers. I want to explore so much more. I guess I can say I'm blessed with being a female and being raised in the United States of America. I've been trained to think that way. I don't think the documentary will save the world or the human race, but it will make people think. Sometimes that is a step in the right direction.