Creating Freedom The Lottery of Birth (2013)

THE LOTTERY OF BIRTH is the first in a threepart 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 worlds leading intellectuals journalists and activists to offer an alternative perspective on todays society and the future were 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