S2 Deep Dive #2 (Part One): The Century of the Self - Adam Curtis
Propaganda Loves You: Adam Curtis Deep Dive (Part 1) — Bernays, Consumerism, and Engineering Consent
The hosts begin their second deep dive of the year by reviewing the first two episodes of Adam Curtis’s four-part documentary A Century of the Self, connecting it to a prior discussion of Edward Bernays. They discuss the documentary’s unsettling aesthetic and its theme that corporate and political elites used psychoanalysis and public relations to shift America from a needs-based culture to a desires-based consumer culture, including examples like soap marketing, planned obsolescence, and…
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