The Century of the Self (Full Adam Curtis Documentary)

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What this video covers

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.

How the source describes its HN context

HN recommends it often and strongly as an eye-opening account of marketing psychology and the engineering of consumer society.

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