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Dagobah Resident
I found in this 20 minute video, "The Story Of Stuff" a concise and thorough explanation of how capitalism works and how it affects the earth and the beings who live on it.
As the title suggests, the focus is on the consumer based economy that perpetuates itself by exploiting psychological needs to create insatiable desires.
In addition to the video, for people interested in how we came to this sorry plight, I also suggest the following:
"Land Of Desire: Merchants, Power and the Rise of a New American Culture", by William Leach. This book describes the methods that were used at the end of the 19th Century to create the consumer culture in the United States.
"Propaganda". by Edward Bernays. The back cover says this about Bernays:
The nephew of Sigmund Freud, Edward Bernays (1891-1995)
pioneered the scientific technique of shaping and manipulating
public opinion which he called "engineering of consent".
During World War I, he was an integral part __along with
Walter Lippmann__of the US Committee on Public Information
(CPI), a powerful propaganda machine that advertised and
sold the war to the American people as one that would
"Make the World Safe For Democracy". The marketing
strategies for all future wars would be based on the CPI
model1939 ........
In addition , his propaganda campaign for The United Fruit
Company in the 1950s led directly to the CIA's overthrow
of the elected government of Guatemala."
Another book I recommend is "A Nation In Torment: The Great American Depression,
1929" - by Edward Robb Ellis.
This book was first published in 1970. The rather poignant and ironic statement found in its preface expresses the following wish, "By reading about the Depression of the 1930's, you may arm yourself to fight off the next one."
I suppose that the PTB, to prevent the possibility of society being able to "fight off the next one," devised the plan to so dumb down the American public to make the likelihood of this happening next to impossible.
And as the American economy is ricocetting out of control, the major concern in the media is not that people are losing their jobs, not that people are losing their houses, not that people are up to their eyeballs in credit card debt, not that the potential for suffering is growing exponentiall everyday, but that sales are down!!!!
What is alarming about all of this taken together is the extent to which consumerism and the mass market it created have so devoured the resources of the earth, and integrity of entire cultures in little over 100 years!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is the link to the film:
http://www.storyofstuff.com/
As the title suggests, the focus is on the consumer based economy that perpetuates itself by exploiting psychological needs to create insatiable desires.
In addition to the video, for people interested in how we came to this sorry plight, I also suggest the following:
"Land Of Desire: Merchants, Power and the Rise of a New American Culture", by William Leach. This book describes the methods that were used at the end of the 19th Century to create the consumer culture in the United States.
"Propaganda". by Edward Bernays. The back cover says this about Bernays:
The nephew of Sigmund Freud, Edward Bernays (1891-1995)
pioneered the scientific technique of shaping and manipulating
public opinion which he called "engineering of consent".
During World War I, he was an integral part __along with
Walter Lippmann__of the US Committee on Public Information
(CPI), a powerful propaganda machine that advertised and
sold the war to the American people as one that would
"Make the World Safe For Democracy". The marketing
strategies for all future wars would be based on the CPI
model1939 ........
In addition , his propaganda campaign for The United Fruit
Company in the 1950s led directly to the CIA's overthrow
of the elected government of Guatemala."
Another book I recommend is "A Nation In Torment: The Great American Depression,
1929" - by Edward Robb Ellis.
This book was first published in 1970. The rather poignant and ironic statement found in its preface expresses the following wish, "By reading about the Depression of the 1930's, you may arm yourself to fight off the next one."
I suppose that the PTB, to prevent the possibility of society being able to "fight off the next one," devised the plan to so dumb down the American public to make the likelihood of this happening next to impossible.
And as the American economy is ricocetting out of control, the major concern in the media is not that people are losing their jobs, not that people are losing their houses, not that people are up to their eyeballs in credit card debt, not that the potential for suffering is growing exponentiall everyday, but that sales are down!!!!
What is alarming about all of this taken together is the extent to which consumerism and the mass market it created have so devoured the resources of the earth, and integrity of entire cultures in little over 100 years!!!!!!!!!!!
Here is the link to the film:
http://www.storyofstuff.com/
