All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace is a remarkable three-part documentary film series made by Adam Curtis for the BBC. (Click on the link if the embedded videos don’t work.)
He explores the consequences of looking at the economy, at nature and at human nature as an self-regulating cybernetic-like system, governed by automatic feedback, without the need for human thought.
Thinking this way make people assume that political action is futile and it is better to stand aside and let things come into adjustment automatically. This is profoundly anti-democratic. Also, it doesn’t work.
Love and Power is about the idea that the economic system will come to a desirable equilibrium based on individual self-interest without outside regulation.
He reports on Ayn Rand and her attempt to set up a utopian community based on the virtue of selfishness, and on Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who internalized the values of Ayn Rand.