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DESCRIPTION:The Century of the Self\nby Adam Curtis\n\nThe evening begins with a social 
 hour and optional pot luck supper at 6:00 pm,\nfollowed by the film at  
 7:30 pm,  followed by a discussion at the end of the film.\n\nEpiside 2:  
 The Engineering of Consent\n\nEpisode Two of this extraordinary 
 intellectual masterpiece by Adam Curtis explores how those in power in 
 post-war America used Freud's ideas about the unconscious mind to try and 
 control the masses.  Politicians and planners came to believe Freud's 
 underlying premise ─ that deep within all human beings were dangerous and 
 irrational desires and fears.  They were convinced that it was the 
 unleashing of these instincts that had led to the barbarism of Nazi 
 Germany.  To stop it ever happening again they set out to find ways to 
 control this hidden enemy within the human mind.  Sigmund Freud's daughter, 
 Anna, and his nephew, Edward Bernays, provided the centrepiece philosophy.  
 The U.S. government, big business, and the CIA used their ideas to develop 
 techniques to manage and control the minds of the American people.  But 
 this was not a cynical exercise in manipulation.  Those in power believed 
 that the only way to make democracy work and create a stable society was to 
 repress the savage barbarism that lurked just under the surface of normal 
 American life.\n\nWheelchair accessible around the corner at  411  28th  
 Street\n\n$5 donations are accepted\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/05/07/18593532.php
SUMMARY:The Century of the Self: Episode 2
LOCATION:Humanist Hall\n390  27th  Street\nuptown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway\nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/05/07/18593532.php
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