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Today’s program: screening of film “The Lottery of Birth” (77 minutes)

Do you shape the world or does the world shape you? Is freedom something that we are born with or something we must work to attain? Offering a torrent of mind-expanding ideas and information, “The Lottery of Birth” will make you think again about what it means to be free.

Drawing on the best minds in philosophy, history, psychology, physics, and economics, it employs decades of evidence to interrogate what we are, where we are, and where we want to be. From birth onwards our minds are a battleground of competing forces; the outcome of this battle determines the society we create.

This is a film about the cultural, educational, political, and commercial forces that shape our identities, often in ways that limit both our personal and political freedom.