The Century Of The Self: Controlling The ‘Dangerous Crowd’ In An Age Of Mass Democracy

Thursday, January 1, 2015
By Paul Martin

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
01/01/2015

“This series is about how those in power have used Freud’s theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy,” begins Adam Curtis, as he describes the propaganda that Western governments and corporations have utilized stemming from Freud’s theories (and his nephew Bernays). The words of Paul Mazur, perhaps ironically working for Lehman Brothers at the time, sum it all up: “We must shift America from a ‘needs’ to a ‘desires’ culture. People must be trained to desire, to want new things, even before the old have been entirely consumed… Man’s desires must overshadow his needs.”

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