Roscoe, if you wish to be told what to think, go watch FOX-TV. I
would rather folks just go see it for themselves and think for
themselves, if they need to be told by my eloquence to go watch-it,
well I guess they might miss it, ... aw, shucks.
The films have been out for years, and yes, it is very good. I
recommend it. Go watch it, if you haven't seen it. It may help you to
understand the world we live in. I have plenty to do creating new
content and context.
Peace,
K
On Sep 17, 2008, at 5:15 AM, roscoe drummond wrote:
Okay "RoadsEnd",, why don't you now tell us what was, in your words,
very good about it.
RoadsEnd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Tis very good.
Peace,
K
On Sep 16, 2008, at 9:57 PM, Vigilius Haufniensis wrote:
Haven't seen this yet, but it looks good. -Vmann
http://tracker.conspiracycentral.net/torrents-details.php?id=1777
The Century Of The Self - Part 1of4
Happiness Machines
The story of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his American
nephew, Edward Bernays. Bernays invented the public relations
profession in the 1920s and was the first person to take Freud's ideas
to manipulate the masses. He showed American corporations how they
could make people want things they didn't need by systematically
linking mass-produced goods to their unconscious desires.
Bernays was one of the main architects of the modern techniques of
mass-consumer persuasion, using every trick in the book, from
celebrity endorsement and outrageous PR stunts, to eroticising the
motorcar.
His most notorious coup was breaking the taboo on women smoking by
persuading them that cigarettes were a symbol of independence and
freedom. But Bernays was convinced that this was more than just a way
of selling consumer goods. It was a new political idea of how to
control the masses. By satisfying the inner irrational desires that
his uncle had identified, people could be made happy and thus docile.
It was the start of the all-consuming self which has come to dominate
today's world.
http://tracker.conspiracycentral.net/torrents-details.php?id=1778
The Century Of The Self - Part 2of4
The Engineering of Consent
The programme explores how those in power in post-war America used
Freud's ideas about the unconscious mind to try and control the masses.
Politicians and planners came to believe Freud's underlying premise -
that deep within all human beings were dangerous and irrational
desires and fears. They were convinced that it was the unleashing of
these instincts that had led to the barbarism of Nazi Germany. To stop
it ever happening again they set out to find ways to control this
hidden enemy within the human mind.
Sigmund Freud's daughter, Anna, and his nephew, Edward Bernays,
provided the centrepiece philosophy. The US government, big business,
and the CIA used their ideas to develop techniques to manage and
control the minds of the American people. But this was not a cynical
exercise in manipulation. Those in power believed that the only way to
make democracy work and create a stable society was to repress the
savage barbarism that lurked just under the surface of normal American
life.
http://tracker.conspiracycentral.net/torrents-details.php?id=1779
The Century Of The Self - Part 3of4
There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads: He Must Be Destroyed
In the 1960s, a radical group of psychotherapists challenged the
influence of Freudian ideas in America. They were inspired by the
ideas of Wilhelm Reich, a pupil of Freud's, who had turned against him
and was hated by the Freud family. He believed that the inner self did
not need to be repressed and controlled. It should be encouraged to
express itself.
Out of this came a political movement that sought to create new beings
free of the psychological conformity that had been implanted in
people's minds by business and politics.
This programme shows how this rapidly developed in America through
self-help movements like Werber Erhard's Erhard Seminar Training -
into the irresistible rise of the expressive self: the Me Generation.
But the American corporations soon realised that this new self was not
a threat but their greatest opportunity. It was in their interest to
encourage people to feel they were unique individuals and then sell
them ways to express that individuality. To do this they turned to
techniques developed by Freudian psychoanalysts to read the inner
desires of the new self.
http://tracker.conspiracycentral.net/torrents-details.php?id=1780
The Century Of The Self - Part 4of4
Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering
This episode explains how politicians on the left, in both Britain and
America, turned to the techniques developed by business to read and
fulfil the inner desires of the self.
Both New Labour, under Tony Blair, and the Democrats, led by Bill
Clinton, used the focus group, which had been invented by
psychoanalysts, in order to regain power. They set out to mould their
policies to people's inner desires and feelings, just as capitalism
had learnt to do with products.
Out of this grew a new culture of public relations and marketing in
politics, business and journalism. One of its stars in Britain was
Matthew Freud who followed in the footsteps of his relation, Edward
Bernays, the inventor of public relations in the 1920s.
The politicians believed they were creating a new and better form of
democracy, one that truly responded to the inner feelings of
individual. But what they didn't realise was that the aim of those who
had originally created these techniques had not been to liberate the
people but to develop a new way of controlling them.
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