The Happiness Machines...The Consuming Machines

The Century Of Self Part 1 (of 4) Happiness Machines

BBC documentary ...to understand how Man/the world was designed to be a "consuming machine" !

"This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy." - Adam Curtis
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6718420906413643126#

PART II
"...controlling the hidden enemy"
PART III
"...controlling the hidden irrational self...by feeding the infinite desires"!
PART IV

"...an excellent 4-part BBC documentary on the origins and power of PR (public relations) in our culture, our politics, and our government (http://bit.ly/PR-history-1)"(1)

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More from Adam Curtis/BBC; just to end the illusion of importing "progress" :

Again an interesting documentary film on the "Nightmare of the Free World" with tremendous consequences until today:

Politics - The Power of Nightmares (3 Parts)

Part II

Part III

(1) Tom Atlee, http://bit.ly/GameChange-1