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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.

Hacker News 读者推荐理由: HN recommends it often and strongly as an eye-opening account of marketing psychology and the engineering of consumer society.

13 recommenders6 strong recommendations2016–2026
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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