Best to view this documentary in segments as it uses over three hours to trace the use of psychology and psychiatry in the last hundred years on the human psyche to manipulate consumer purchasing and political voting.
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We have been nudged from being “humans” with human rights into “economic resource units” with consumer rights. More recently we have been nudged again into being “techno serfs” who are educated to be compliant “debt slaves” within the emergent “neo feudal” economies. With the onset of AI/Automation and the internet of things, we are currently being nudged into the “internet of the bodies”, being conveyed through transhumanist processes and social engineering, eventually to post-humanist techno feudalism, easily for the PTB as we voluntarily and eventually completely devalue and demean our own humanity with its own divinity. Along this entire process we have been sucked in via a narcissistic internet of vanity, to devalue our humanity in favour of image and social media “likes”. In fact, we have actually devalued the selfhood, unique personal purpose and sense of meaning of the “other” and indeed of all humanity.
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The documentary carries a very important message for those interested in how our society came to this juncture in history. It should be included in all educational curriculums.
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I had my kids watch this when I was homeschooling. At the time, my focus was on economics; I was teaching them the difference between Keynes and Say and how capitalism gets blamed for high levels of consumption (and overconsumption) when it was really Keynesianism that pumped up consumerism with the infinite growth paradigm.
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Hello and wishing you many hours of interesting contribution, discussion ahead.
Welcome to our conversation pit!
Please forgive my occasional and unintentional rabble-rousing throughout these discussings… I do tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve. We ARE in the thick of it after all
Pay me no mind though.
Also, what Bill said down there 
Kudos
Your choice to be intimately involved with your children’s education and include subject matter such as this documentary speaks volumes as to the resourcefulness and intelligence necessary for homeschooling. The documentary touches upon a myriad of discussion topics, economics being one, even though no economist was mentioned.
Kadoos to you.
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Thank you… I had forgotten it was called the Century of the Self but when I started it the opening shot and music took me right back (this was, gosh, 15 years ago now!) Anyway, thank you again.
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Thank you for the welcome. People used to tell me I was a very polite person in an argument but I don’t know… the older I get, the less patience I have, so I get it. lol
Thanks, nice to be here. I found this place after watching JF on a Solari podcast from 2011 this morning. Think I’m probably in the right place.
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… Ditto to Steph … and Steph you should pay “some” mind to Mohgarr.
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Oh I wouldn’t unless you have mind left over that was just going to waste anyway. Then maybe you might brave just a BIT of the peril…
Pro-Tip: If you happen to catch me breaking in to song(s) out of nowhere like in a bad musical…That’s your cue to look away. It’s painful to watch but might be a useful perk when “The Purge” begins in earnest…tension breaker…you know.
Should be starting anytime now… Not a lot of Exit Stage left.
Heavens to murgatroyd … did not figure you for a Snagglepuss man
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The classic line:
Exit, Stage Left!
Loved it!
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Well you were wrong then weren’t you
I once “strategically” skipped swimming lessons as a child to catch those cartoons. Snagglepuss, Grape Ape, Looney Tunes, Rocky and Bullwinkle…Miss those Saturday mornings, never to come again…
Incidentally, I had sort of a risque joke related to your comment that I was going to throw in as well…but thought better of it…You’re welcome.
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