Watched another Adam Curtis documentary called the Trap. The trap being a concept of liberty called "negative liberty."

It's a difficult concept for me to explain but negative liberty is the idea there should be no restrictions on ones life. This is I think, the ideals of many here.

Positive liberty, is, well, I don't have a good grasp on it, seems to be more about the idea of being free to choose a path that pursues a goal or a purpose. So it's less about a concept of complete lack of restrictions.

This might be the difference I'm noticing in the podcasting 2.0 community versus the pure bitcoin community. The former seems to focus more on a positive, purpose driven community.

The later seems to be a loose collection of people who don't want things in their way.

Both of these characterizations are not completely true however.

The film really makes you question if negative liberty is a good thing or not though. I'd recommend this film to everyone here.

These documentaries were recommended to me by Amir Taaki, which I find interesting given his current projects.