Category: Power

The Century of the Self – BBC Video Documentary

About ” The Century of the Self ” :

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To many in both politics and business, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the people. Certainly the people may feel they are in charge, but are they really? 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?

More on the series:

Episode One: Happiness Machines
Episode Two: The Engineering of Consent
Episode Three: There is a Policeman Inside All Our Head: He Must Be Destroyed
Episode Four: Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering

"People are collectively participating in a system that is enslaving them."

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( I found this last link through http://www.droppingknowledge.org/ questions list – more exactly: http://www.droppingknowledge.org/bin/posts/focus/10261.page – Is pusuit of profit/money or Life the goal here – by Atma )

also see

http://www.altruists.org/ideas/economics/

http://www.equilibrismus.de/

and other links ( including about alternatives ) I add to

http://del.icio.us/deliciousdante/Economy?setcount=100

http://del.icio.us/deliciousdante/AlternativeEconomics