03-11-2008, 11:50 PM
Mark Stapleton Wrote:His campaigns were audacious and brilliant. The Youtube clip is part of the excellent 2002 BBC doco 'The Century of Self" by Adam Curtis, dealing with Bernays' life. Note the ingenious way he transformed a taboo on women smoking in the 1920's into a generation of newly "liberated" women smokers:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZYTrFokPH...re=related
Yup. Adam Curtis on form.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war