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The Century of the Self (Full Adam Curtis Documentary)
David Lessig
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.
HN recommends it often and strongly as an eye-opening account of marketing psychology and the engineering of consumer society.
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