How politicians and business learned to create and manipulate mass-consumer society.
Episodes: One | Happiness Machines
Episode Two | The Engineering of Consent
Adam Curtis, The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in Britain and the United States. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interests?
Freud provided useful tools for understanding the secret desires of the masses. Unwittingly, his work served as the precursor to a world full of political spin doctors, marketing moguls, and society's belief that the pursuit of satisfaction and happiness is man's ultimate goal.
Episodes: One | Happiness Machines
Episode Two | The Engineering of Consent
Adam Curtis, The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in Britain and the United States. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interests?
Freud provided useful tools for understanding the secret desires of the masses. Unwittingly, his work served as the precursor to a world full of political spin doctors, marketing moguls, and society's belief that the pursuit of satisfaction and happiness is man's ultimate goal.
A must watch Documentary Maker is Adam Curtis, maker of :
The Power of Nightmares
The Century of the Self
The Trap — What Happened to our Dream of Freedom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmareshttp://en.wikipedia.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trap_%28television_documentary_series%29
The Power of Nightmares
The Century of the Self
The Trap — What Happened to our Dream of Freedom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmareshttp://en.wikipedia.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trap_%28television_documentary_series%29
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