Explains the history of mass manipulation and its implementation in consumerism and fascism (which are two sides of the same coin).
To many in both business and government, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power is truly moved into the hands of the people. Certainly the people may feel they are in charge, but are they really? The Century of the Self by Adam Curtis tells the untold and controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society. How is the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interest?
The Freud dynasty is at the heart of this compelling social history. Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis; Edward Bernays, who invented public relations; Anna Freud, Sigmund’s devoted daughter; and present-day PR guru and Sigmund’s great grandson, Matthew Freud. Sigmund Freud’s work into the bubbling and murky world of the subconscious changed the world. By introducing a technique to probe the unconscious mind, 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.
Part 1-Happiness Machines: Part one documents the story of the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his American nephew, Edward Bernays who invented ‘Public Relations’ in the 1920s, being 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.
Part 2-The Engineering of Consent: Part two 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. They were convinced that it was the unleashing of these instincts that had led to the barbarism of Nazi Germany, and in response to this, they set out to find ways to control the masses so as to manage the ‘hidden enemy’ within the human mind.
Part 3-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, which lead to the creation of a new political movement that sought to create ‘new people’, free of the psychological conformity that had been implanted in people’s minds by business and politics. This episode shows how this idea rapidly developed in America through “self-help movements”, into the irresistible rise of the expressive self: the Me Generation.
Part 4-Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering: This episode explains how politicians turned to the same techniques used by business in order to read and manipulate the inner desires of the masses. Both New Labor with Tony Blair and the Democrats led by Bill Clinton, used the focus group which had been invented by psychoanalysts in order to regain power. Both set out to mold their policies to manipulate people’s innermost desires and feelings, just as capitalism had learned to do with products.
STOCKTON, Calif. (KCRA) - Earlier this year, a Stockton student was handcuffed with zip ties on his hands and feet, forced to go to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation and was charged with battery on a police officer. That student was 5 years old.
“We, Afghanistan and Iraq veterans from around the country will converge in Chicago on May 20 to ceremoniously return our medals to NATO generals,” according to the blog. “We were awarded these medals for serving in the Global War on Terror, a war based on lies and failed policies. This endless war has killed hundreds of thousands, stripped the humanity of all involved, and drained our communities of trillions of dollars, diverting funds from schools, clinics, libraries, and other public goods.”
Leaving tumblr for awhile again… maybe longer.
I can’t handle talking to a wall… it always happens. I try to do the slightest thing to help talk about cissupremacy and some cisscum radscum fuck appears to say that there’s no such thing as cis privilege…
Yeah, we’re just making all this shit up. Brandy didn’t really die blocks from where I live… the whole Trans Day of Remembrance list is a hoax…
Did this cisscum piece of shit seriously just say there’s no such thing as cis privilege?
Or that trans* people are included in the gay community?
Yet they don’t realize that their denial of cis privilege in itself proves that cis people are not a part of the gay community??
How can you possibly say there’s no such things as cis privilege??? People don’t get jobs because they’re trans or, if they do, they might very well lose it for the same reason. PEOPLE FUCKING DIE FOR BEING TRANS FAR MORE THAN GAY PEOPLE DIE FOR BEING GAY! The gay community tells us we’re not welcome, the queer community excludes trans* womyn. We don’t get access to health care; we die in ERs that refuse to help us; we’re killed by cops who supposedly protect us.
I have no reason to listen to you anymore and I seriously, truly hope that you die in a fire.
Oh look, my first death threat. Nice. Right along with the denial of homophobia. Yes, yes, I’m totally wrong, my lesbian self is so incredibly privileged, I’m making it up when I talk about the police brutality I’ve experienced, I have so much privilege as a female-bodied woman, I’m just a privileged piece of shit who couldn’t possibly have any real empathy or interest or desire to support the trans people who I consider part of my community. I’m just an evil little bigot who thinks that gay teens deserve support. Yup, that’s me.
Not a death threat, good reading skills for a professor.
Also, I’M GAY TOO! I’M NOT DENYING HOMOPHOBIA YOU FUCKING DOUCHE!
YOU’RE THE ONE WHO IS DENYING PRIVILEGE! YOU LITERALLY SAID THERE IS NO CIS PRIVILEGE! YOU ARE CLAIMING THAT THE SHIT THAT TRANS* PEOPLE DEAL WITH IS A LIE AND NOW YOU’RE ACCUSING ME OF DOING THAT TO YOU??
Did this cisscum piece of shit seriously just say there’s no such thing as cis privilege?
Or that trans* people are included in the gay community?
Yet they don’t realize that their denial of cis privilege in itself proves that cis people are not a part of the gay community??
How can you possibly say there’s no such things as cis privilege??? People don’t get jobs because they’re trans or, if they do, they might very well lose it for the same reason. PEOPLE FUCKING DIE FOR BEING TRANS FAR MORE THAN GAY PEOPLE DIE FOR BEING GAY! The gay community tells us we’re not welcome, the queer community excludes trans* womyn. We don’t get access to health care; we die in ERs that refuse to help us; we’re killed by cops who supposedly protect us.
I have no reason to listen to you anymore and I seriously, truly hope that you die in a fire.
Oh look, my first death threat. Nice. Right along with the denial of homophobia. Yes, yes, I’m totally wrong, my lesbian self is so incredibly privileged, I’m making it up when I talk about the police brutality I’ve experienced, I have so much privilege as a female-bodied woman, I’m just a privileged piece of shit who couldn’t possibly have any real empathy or interest or desire to support the trans people who I consider part of my community. I’m just an evil little bigot who thinks that gay teens deserve support. Yup, that’s me.
Not a death threat, good reading skills for a professor.
Also, I’M GAY TOO! I’M NOT DENYING HOMOPHOBIA YOU FUCKING DOUCHE!
YOU’RE THE ONE WHO IS DENYING PRIVILEGE! YOU LITERALLY SAID THERE IS NO CIS PRIVILEGE! YOU ARE CLAIMING THAT THE SHIT THAT TRANS* PEOPLE DEAL WITH IS A LIE AND NOW YOU’RE ACCUSING ME OF DOING THAT TO YOU??
(Hey, Check Dat Privilege, still want to argue that people understood you “didn’t mean” that trans people were more important that gay and lesbian youth?)
I think that number you’ve posted is incorrect. I’m reading the data in the link you provided and it ranges WILDLY, with the number you’ve provided being the absolute highest percentage found in any study.
Be sure to check the type of study. The 40.3% is from the study that is closest to the methods used to get the statistics for the trans population. The difference is not that huge.
Regardless, the fact is that there is no effort to talk about trans* suicide while gay suicide has celebrities endorsing ad campaigns.
There is no denying that trans* people, especially trans* womyn (especially TWOC), suffer more deaths at the hands of cissupremacy than the gay community suffers at the hands of homophobia.
I kind of thought that trans people were part of the gay community.
Throw in the many facts about how we have so much less legal protection than gay people and the picture becomes quite clear. Cis people have privilege over trans* people REGARDLESS OF ORIENTATION.
This is something I disagree with you on. Particularly for women, there is no “cis” privilege.
Am I saying that makes us more important? No. However, I AM saying that we are a group who is suffering more and getting WAY WAY less support and attention.
“Suffering more.” Yes, when you say this you really are saying that one group is more important. You are saying that one group deserves more help - which is exactly what Check Dat Privilege said when they created this post. And now their misinformation and that hateful message are going to keep spreading the idea that gay and lesbian youth are not suffering as much. What a wonderful thing to be putting out there.
Did this cisscum piece of shit seriously just say there’s no such thing as cis privilege?
Or that trans* people are included in the gay community?
Yet they don’t realize that their denial of cis privilege in itself proves that cis people are not a part of the gay community??
How can you possibly say there’s no such thing as cis privilege??? People don’t get jobs because they’re trans or, if they do, they might very well lose it for the same reason. PEOPLE FUCKING DIE FOR BEING TRANS FAR MORE THAN GAY PEOPLE DIE FOR BEING GAY! The gay community tells us we’re not welcome, the queer community excludes trans* womyn. We don’t get access to health care; we die in ERs that refuse to help us; we’re killed by cops who supposedly protect us.
I have no reason to listen to you anymore and I seriously, truly hope that you die in a fire.
I mean, you are literally fucking saying that a trans* womyn and a cis womyn, all other things being equal, HAVE THE EXACT SAME LEVEL OF PRIVILEGE!
What. The. FUCK!
This is why I need to stop using tumblr… people like academicsilence piss me off to no end…
(Hey, Check Dat Privilege, still want to argue that people understood you “didn’t mean” that trans people were more important that gay and lesbian youth?)
I think that number you’ve posted is incorrect. I’m reading the data in the link you provided and it ranges WILDLY, with the number you’ve provided being the absolute highest percentage found in any study.
Be sure to check the type of study. The 40.3% is from the study that is closest to the methods used to get the statistics for the trans population. The difference is not that huge.
Regardless, the fact is that there is no effort to talk about trans* suicide while gay suicide has celebrities endorsing ad campaigns.
There is no denying that trans* people, especially trans* womyn (especially TWOC), suffer more deaths at the hands of cissupremacy than the gay community suffers at the hands of homophobia.
I kind of thought that trans people were part of the gay community.
Throw in the many facts about how we have so much less legal protection than gay people and the picture becomes quite clear. Cis people have privilege over trans* people REGARDLESS OF ORIENTATION.
This is something I disagree with you on. Particularly for women, there is no “cis” privilege.
Am I saying that makes us more important? No. However, I AM saying that we are a group who is suffering more and getting WAY WAY less support and attention.
“Suffering more.” Yes, when you say this you really are saying that one group is more important. You are saying that one group deserves more help - which is exactly what Check Dat Privilege said when they created this post. And now their misinformation and that hateful message are going to keep spreading the idea that gay and lesbian youth are not suffering as much. What a wonderful thing to be putting out there.
Did this cisscum piece of shit seriously just say there’s no such thing as cis privilege?
Or that trans* people are included in the gay community?
Yet they don’t realize that their denial of cis privilege in itself proves that cis people are not a part of the gay community??
How can you possibly say there’s no such thing as cis privilege??? People don’t get jobs because they’re trans or, if they do, they might very well lose it for the same reason. PEOPLE FUCKING DIE FOR BEING TRANS FAR MORE THAN GAY PEOPLE DIE FOR BEING GAY! The gay community tells us we’re not welcome, the queer community excludes trans* womyn. We don’t get access to health care; we die in ERs that refuse to help us; we’re killed by cops who supposedly protect us.
I have no reason to listen to you anymore and I seriously, truly hope that you die in a fire.
(Hey, Check Dat Privilege, still want to argue that people understood you “didn’t mean” that trans people were more important that gay and lesbian youth?)
I think that number you’ve posted is incorrect. I’m reading the data in the link you provided and it ranges WILDLY, with the number you’ve provided being the absolute highest percentage found in any study.
Regardless, the fact is that there is no effort to talk about trans* suicide while gay suicide has celebrity endorsed ad campaigns.
There is no denying that trans* people, especially trans* womyn (especially TWOC), suffer more deaths at the hands of cissupremacy than the gay community suffers at the hands of homophobia.
Throw in the many facts about how we have so much less legal protection than gay people and the picture becomes quite clear. Cis people have privilege over trans* people REGARDLESS OF ORIENTATION.
Am I saying that makes us more important? No. However, I AM saying that we are a group who is suffering more and getting WAY, WAY less support and attention.
"Ms. Hazard is the hardest motherfucking femme in the motherfucking world. She'll spit in your face and you'll sweat glitter. And you'll fucking love it."
-November
