The Century of Self_ Engineering of Consent part 5

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The programme 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 and fears. They were convinced that it was the unleashing of these instincts that had led to the barbarism of Nazi Germany. To stop it ever happening again they set out to find ways to control this hidden enemy within the human mind.

Sigmund Freud's daughter, Anna, and his nephew, Edward Bernays, provided the centrepiece philosophy. The US government, big business, and the CIA used their ideas to develop techniques to manage and control the minds of the American people. But this was not a cynical exercise in manipulation. Those in power believed that the only way to make democracy work and create a stable society was to repress the savage barbarism that lurked just under the surface of normal American life.

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[ilindah]

pshycoanalysts are the creators of the cookie cutter family, sameness, suburbia, etc based on an assumption that all human beings (bar them) are all the same and behave, want and have the same desires when in actuality, everyone for example is looking for 'love' whatever that means to the individual...and the collapse of another institution like 'marriage' is hugely due to the reality that there are infinite ways of defining 'love'

[ilindah]

it is interesting how these assholes talk about 'human beings' being 'irrational' who couldn't be trusted...my question is: aren't these fuckers human beings to?? in my opinion, these psychos seem to impose their own fears of their own irrational ways of thinking to control others on the masses as a generalization when in truth, people are individuals who are having a unique experience from the next one.

[jxhensley]

I know this is made for TV and people can tune it at any time...

but it would make a great drinking game. Just take a swig every time Curtis says "Edward Bernays" or "irrational impulses."