三集按照需求等级排列，第一集从生存要求探索人本身讲起；第二集进入群体社会范畴，探讨更好地解决社会性问题；第三集处理好经济基础后进入上层建筑展开文化之旅。每一集都有新意，都不是你打开之前所能想的内容，惊喜连连。选取人物和叙述内容还是以英国为主。现在想来，如果我去英国前就看过这三集，我会更早得打开自己、寻找更多的机会探索大英。特别是第二集，简直就是我当时的专业嘛，涉及到的诸多概念和流派welfare state, housing policy, social inclusion。随便哪个人物拿出来都是当时的考试题目和summative essay.
The first episode on how a man becomes a man in the modern terms comprises of four flows of ideas. They can be explicitly expressed in the concluding quotes at the end of the first episode in concisely exquisite ways: "This is a century of enquiry into human behaviour, fought out on the airwaves, has brought us. We are undoubtedly products of our biology, and the potential for human failing will always be there. But that doesn't mean we are slaves to our nature. The sophistication of our human brain, and the ways we are living together, have given us the power to recognize and master our worst impulses. This, after all, is what human being is all about."
The four flows:
1. psychological: we are subject to our innate impulses (Sigmund Freud)
2. biological (1): we are made up of 'selfish' genes. The genes dicide how human being behaves and evolves.
3. bilogical (2)/ rational: the genes are on the other hand, have evloved into super sophistication and exquisiteness; which can function on the human choices.
4. social: we are trained and moulded by the social strcture.
第二集的小标题妙极了！大概人类发展史上每一次思想潮流的改变和撞击都可以被称作是The Grand Experiment，各种“家”们提出自己的理论、实践他们的思想、改变世界的走向，的确没有一个experiment比这个更Grand了。看完这集我才深切地意识到我在LSE学的socia policy的历史起源和现实发展，以前都在reading里读的半生不熟的东西仅仅通过这50分钟就全部活起来了。这一集按照时间顺序重点讲了以下great thinkers的观点：
1. Betrand Russel 罗素的观点比较偏精英，越晚年竟然越激进，想要重塑社会。
2. 重点的来了。John Maynard Keynes and Williaim Beveridge。真是激动又惭愧，原来凯恩斯的经济学观点是要跟我LSE的创始人之一联系在一起才对。一战后英国的recovery依靠凯恩斯的insurance of employment和Beveridge的social insurance双管齐下，合称为Keynesism welfare state。同时，Beveridge对于welfare state这个概念是很不赞同的，他认为国家在health, education, pension, housing 等方面的insurance是bare minimum, 人们都必有想法要追寻更好的生活。（他一定是没看过第一集的电击实验）
3. 重点的又来了。Frieddich Hayek-Milton Friedman-Keith Joseph.这一脉相承的liberalism。当然各有重点，但片中提到的几个核心论点“The only spur is gain. Altrusim doesn't come in." " Personal responsibility > state intervention" "monetarian-less issue of money, less job opportunity provided by the government". 看这部分的时候突然想起来上Sonia的EDUCATIONAL POLICY的课时，有一个德国小美女，每次一上课讨论都会引用Friedman的论点，我当时听不太懂，就只呆呆着看着想说那是谁啊他的观点是什么啊她怎么什么都知道啊，真的是听呆了。到那门课结束我都没弄明白Friedman是谁，他的论点是如何。唉，不懂就大胆问啊!
4. Francis Fukuyama. 非常大胆又讨巧得提出“The end of history"：liberal democracy\ democratic capitalism彻底赢了，communicsm无处可安放的世界，世界唯我独优，end。
第三集作为收尾有点hold不住的感觉，没有前两集强大，不够mind-catching. 几个重点流派：
1. BBC创始人John Reith，宣扬宗教式的上层文化。
2. Raymond Williaims 文化之间需要穿越。Borders are meant to be crossed.
3. Marshall Miluhan? 英语圈很流行的那句”The medium is the message"出自这里。
4. use culture as a means of political control (cricket)
5. Culture is a constantly changing force.
