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The Century of the Self (Full Adam Curtis Documentary)
David Lessig · 13 recommenders · 13 months
Adam Curtis' multi-part documentary on how Freud's ideas and Edward Bernays' public relations shaped consumer culture and political control. It argues that business and government learned to manufacture desires.
Why Hacker News readers recommend it: HN recommends it often and strongly as an eye-opening account of marketing psychology and the engineering of consumer society.
Media, journalism & propagandaPsychology & human behaviorDocumentaries & storytelling#adam curtis#edward bernays#freud#advertising#psychology
“For the first time in my life I feel like I understood the “why” of how things work in American society.”
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