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The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts
This episode investigates how machine ideas such as cybernetics and systems theory were applied to natural ecosystems, and how this relates to the false idea that there is a balance of nature. Cybernetics has been applied to human beings to attempt to build societies without central control, self organising networks built of people, based on a fantasy view of nature.
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Other episodes for this season
![Love and Power](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/yY0alhBumZhtbGZjwcwJsEam56L.jpg)
![The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/4tlyRg7hOJqGLzfRpnNoe7wXs2z.jpg)
![The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300/htSYEwIi7LYzCCOfQ25bNHxQR5l.jpg)