Having just watched Part 1 of Adam Curtis' "The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom" to be viewed here; his "Power of Nightmares" is also worth viewing. Curtis argues that right wing political doctrine is derived from two main ideas; the war justifying selfish game theory of John Nash, and the lunatic selfish economics of Frederick Hayek. These ideas and their assumptions underlie much of Anglo-American political thought. Curtis traces the variations through our two countries, ending with the lunacy of the Bush Presidency and the empty ending of the Tony Brown ministry. What is fascinating to me is noone in mainstream thought asked a very simple question: Maybe those who argue that human beings are nothing more than self serving paranoid sociopaths do so because that is what they are?