Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

The Century of the Self

How politicians and business learned to create and manipulate mass-consumer society.

Episodes: One | Happiness Machines

Episode Two | The Engineering of Consent
Adam Curtis, The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in Britain and the United States. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interests?

Freud provided useful tools for understanding the secret desires of the masses. Unwittingly, his work served as the precursor to a world full of political spin doctors, marketing moguls, and society's belief that the pursuit of satisfaction and happiness is man's ultimate goal.

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Admissions unimagined Belize is the dominant ideology of the White House, as is well known: took 48 percent of world military spending. Le siguen Europa con el 20 por ciento, China con el 8, Rusia con el 5 (por ahora) y América latina con el 3 por ciento ( www.gao.gov ). Europe followed with 20 percent, China with 8, with Russia 5 (for now) and Latin America with 3 percent (www.gao.gov). Esos gastos constituyen el 54 por ciento del presupuesto nacional estadounidense del 2009, contra 6,2 para educación y 5,3 para salud pública, proporciones que no se observan en ningún otro país de la Tierra. These costs represent 54 percent of U.S. 2009 national budget, from 6.2 to 5.3 for education and public health proportions not seen in any other country on Earth. El viejo dicho dice que quien quiera la paz debe prepararse para la guerra. The old saying that whoever wants peace must prepare for war. EE.UU. U.S. prepara guerras, no más. prepares war, no more.

Inmediatamente después de asumir la presidencia, BO fue más lejos que W. Immediately after assuming the presidency, went further than BO W. y aumentó el número y la intensidad de los ataques de aviones no tripulados contra las áreas tribales paquistaníes que limitan con Afganistán (The New York Times, 20/2/09). and increased the number and intensity of attacks by unmanned aircraft against the Pakistani tribal areas bordering Afghanistan (The New York Times, 20/2/09). Los mandos militares se proponen ahora bombardear otras zonas, por ejemplo Quetta, capital de la provincia de Beluchistán, y sus alrededores (The New York Times, 17/3/09). Military commanders are now bombarding other areas, such Quetta, capital of Baluchistan province, and its environs (The New York Times, 17/3/09). Esto provocaría ásperas reacciones de los paquistaníes: Quetta es una ciudad y no el territorio de pashtunes alejado del centro del país. This would cause harsh reactions from Pakistanis: Quetta is a city and not the land of Pashtuns from the center of the country.

Obama habló con cierto descuido en el programa Face the Nation del lunes pasado: prometió que continuaría lanzando ataques en Pakistán, pero sólo después de consultar con el gobierno de Islamabad, y declaró que la nueva estrategia que los incluye “no modifica el reconocimiento de Pakistán como un Estado soberano” ( www.cbsnews.com , 30/3/0). Obama spoke to some neglect in the program Face the Nation last Monday: had promised that he would continue to launch attacks in Pakistan, but only after consultation with the government in Islamabad, and declared that the new strategy that includes "does not alter the recognition of Pakistan as a sovereign state "(www.cbsnews.com, 30/3/0). Pareciera que la cuestión de la soberanía se entiende de diferentes maneras. It seems that the issue of sovereignty is understood in different ways. O está definitivamente herrumbrada. O is definitely rust.


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