CATEGORY . "The Century of the Self: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7EwXmxpExw "The Century of the Self is an award-winning British television documentary series by Adam Curtis. It focuses on how the work of Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud, and Edward Bernays influenced the way corporations and governments have analyzed, dealt with, and controlled people.
"The Century of the Self is an award-winning British television
documentary series by Adam Curtis. It focuses on how the work of Sigmund Freud,
Anna Freud, and Edward Bernays influenced the way corporations and governments
have analyzed, dealt with, and controlled people.
Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, changed the perception of the
human mind and its workings. His influence on the twentieth century is generally
considered profound. The series describes the propaganda that Western
governments and corporations have utilized stemming from Freud's theories.
... Freud ...was the first to use
psychological techniques in public relations....
"Along these general themes, The Century of the Self asks deeper
questions about the roots and methods of modern consumerism.... It also questions the modern way we see
ourselves, the attitudes to fashion and superficiality....
"Where once the political process was about engaging people's
rational, conscious minds, as well as facilitating their needs as a society, the
documentary shows how by employing the tactics of psychoanalysis, politicians
appeal to irrational, primitive impulses that have little apparent bearing on
issues outside of the narrow self-interest of a consumer population./
"Paul Mazur, a Wall Street banker working for Lehman Brothers in the 1930s, is
cited as declaring "We must shift America from a needs- to a desires-culture.
People must be trained to desire, to want new things, even before the old have
been entirely consumed. [...] Man's desires must overshadow his needs".
Episodes:
1. Happiness Machines (17 March 2002)
2. The Engineering of Consent (24 March 2002)
3. There is a Policeman Inside All Our Heads: He Must Be Destroyed (31 March
2002)
4. Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering (7 April 2002)
In Episode 4 the main subjects are Philip Gould and Matthew Freud, the great
grandson of Sigmund, a PR consultant. They were part of the efforts during the
nineties to bring the Democrats in the US and New Labour in the United Kingdom
back into power. Adam Curtis explores the psychological methods they have now
massively introduced into politics."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7EwXmxpExw
CATEGORY . The Audacity of Narcissism {and more about Al-Harbi] : Over the course of this week, we have observed the Obama administration desperately attempting to cover up its enabling of Islamic terror networks within the US. Of this, there is no doubt. There is no need for me to go into the minutiae vis-à-vis their rhetorical gymnastics concerning the history of the Tsarnaev brothers and their Boston mosque, or the activities of Abdul Rahman Ali Al-Harbi..... / Al-Harbi – and no doubt, many others – are laughing their heads off. At us. At America. At the system that is allowing the unrestricted growth of terrorist networks within the United States. / It is more or less common knowledge among conservatives that President Obama has a treasonous relationship with radical Islamist factions such as the Muslim Brotherhood and the terrorist-affiliated Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR). It has been frustrating that his ostensible political opponents (the GOP leadership) have been so passive as regards pointing this and Obama’s innumerable other sinister actions out to the public. .../ “Highly narcissistic personalities tend to exhibit many of the following qualities… They feel – and this is very central – very highly entitled to what they want. They expect others to accommodate their needs, and they resent – and often punish – those who don’t. They expect to be catered to, emotionally and otherwise… they are extremely self-centered and over-focused on their own needs, and correspondingly less and, often, uninterested, in others’ needs. /“Narcissistically disturbed individuals, including sociopaths, chronically feel contempt for anyone or anything that obstructs their personal, selfish agenda. This can be contempt for a spouse, a business partner, their constituency, their politicians, or laws. .../ Thus, even many Americans who have a clue that Obama is bad news ideologically are not aware of the extremes to which he may be prepared to go in coalescing his power. His closest colleagues are, like him, dedicated Marxists who actually revere mass murderers such as Mao, Stalin, and Castro – so morality is a non-issue for them anyway. Add to this Obama’s sociopathy, and there is literally no limit to his potential for atrocity. See ARTICLE