Century of the Self video by BBC man Adam Curtis,,4 stars

[DemInDistress]

The Century of the Self Part 1

How politicians and business learned to create and manipulate mass-consumer society.

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?

Download file - Real Media
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12642.htm

- Windows Media
http://tinyurl.com/elqxf

Part 2

The Century of the Self

Adam Curtis' acclaimed series examines the rise of the all-consuming self against the backdrop of the Freud dynasty.

Part II - The Engineering of Consent


This is a must watch video

How the US government, big business, and the CIA developed techniques to manage and control the minds of the American people. Click here to view
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12646.htm

Part 1 returns us back to the early 1920"s a guy named eddie bernase (?) and the birth of cousumerism and BIG CORPORATIONS..good stuff and very educational. please find time to view this.. I haven't viewed part 2 yet..

[Pharaoh]

1. I saw part 1

great stuff............

[DemInDistress]

2. thanks pharaoh..I too thought that was good information..

then again Adam Curtis's Power of Nightmares was "out-fucking-standing" loved every minute of dial up aggravation that came with that 3 part-er (baby its cold outside).
I hope others will watch this Century of the Self. ^5 to you !!

[Pharaoh]

3. I am watching part 2 now

very good stuff,

part 3 on monday I guess, is'nt info clearinghouse great!

[DemInDistress]

5. IMHO informationclearinghouse is "fan-fucking-tastic" best

alternative news site I ever come across..sure beats MSM !! sometimes news on ich is picked up by MSM 2-3 days after they report it..great site
raw story
buzz flash
daily kos
DU
many more keep me up to date on world events..

thanks again Pharaoh !!

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

4. It's Edward Bernays

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays

Ivy Lee (William S Burroughs uncle FWIW) was another key figure.

John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton are well worth reading on the subject of PR. They run this website:

http://www.prwatch.org/

publish the quarterly "PR Watch" newsletter:

http://www.prwatch.org/cmd/prwatch.html

and have written several books:

http://www.prwatch.org/books/index.html

You can watch the rest of "The Century of the Self" here:

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=adam%20curtis%20century%20self

[DemInDistress]

6. thanks for the correct spelling... and those links I will bookmark

these for my time tonight is limited..glad to see others like yourself are on top of this. bernays,believe it or not watching that video Century of the Self was the first I heard of this guy. Quite a player in his time. He knew how to play people, play on their emotions and always seemed to hit home runs except for that
stock market crash in 1929.
Eddie Bernays my history lesson for this weekend..

[KoKo]

7. Sounds interesting....will bookmark...n/t

[reprehensor]

8. Also did Power of Nightmares

100% Awesome.

http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares

[DemInDistress]

10. you know rep..power of nightmares was the best factumentary

I ever seen regarding these neocons and islamic maniacs, best ever I say. baby its cold outside. One thing stuck out for me. Back in the middle 70's I seen a younger war maggot named d.rumsfeld doing an interview where he claimed,"absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" didn't we hear that bullshit leading up to the invasion of iraq?
Adam Curtis is my new video hero.

[Drum]

9. Thanks for posting this! nt