The Century of the Self

Watch this film. If you haven’t seen it you owe it to yourself. It shows the history of the American consumer society and how elites have used psychology to get the masses to do what they want. It does a great job of explaining how they manage to sell irrational ideas, like Global Warming…or even the War on Drugs or the War on Terror, to the masses.

Now you might say: “The war on terror isn’t irrational!” The way its being handled is. The way we’re watching our freedoms being whittled away to “protect us” against terrorists. When you consider that you have better odds of winning the lottery than being killed by a terrorist, the way they have got Americans to agree to the indignities the TSA heap on us, or the destruction of our privacy and the willingness to accept spy cams everywhere. Society has agreed to a lot of things that aren’t in its best interest. It’s worth looking at this film to get an idea how they play us.

Now, the film maker, Adam Curtis, also created the Power of Nightmares which another documentary worth watching. The film maker’s views are left leaning like most documentarians. But the overall arguments of his films are very solid and apolitical.

As I’ve said before and I’ll say it again: Both sides lie to us. It’s in your best interest to learn how to see through them. Each side has wha they think are good intentions. But you know what they said about the road to hell being paved with…

Curtis’ series, The Trap, is how we are becoming less free in our fight for freedom. How politicians have boxed themselves in to where they almost have to make our society over managed because of the way they have sold us this fear. I haven’t watched the whole thing yet, but I agree with the premise. With the combination of our over lawyered society and the monstrous bureaucracy Bush created in Homeland Security, we’re facing a bleak future for liberty with all the security measures replicating like mad.

Bush may have created Homeland security with the right intentions. But history shows time and again that bureaucracies always get too big and out of hand. This one has way to much power. It will only get bigger and more extreme. Unless policies take some radical changes,

I’m all for fighting terrorists. But not at the expense of our civil liberties. And that is something we have to be very concerned about.

Some of us have a full plate. I already spent way too much time on this conversation. You’re showing your typical inflexibility right here.  It’s not all about you.

Posted by  on  10/02  at  05:35 PM

Bob, start your own blogg; perhaps someone will visit it and answer your question.

Posted by  on  10/02  at  08:22 PM

James’ post #24:
”... my advice is to ask questions if you don’t understand something someone says…”

That’s what I’m doing ... *sigh*
But okay, lets just drop this topic, you clearly have issues.

Posted by  on  10/03  at  12:17 AM

There you go again, Bob. You make everything personal.

And for the record, I have told you repeatedly what your problem is. You don’t listen.

Posted by  on  10/03  at  08:00 AM
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