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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 4: 
 8 People Sipping Wine in Kettering\n\nEpisode Four of this extraordinary 
 intellectual masterpiece by Adam Curtis explains how politicians on the 
 left, in both Britain and America, turned to the techniques developed by 
 business to read and fulfill the inner desires of the self.  Both New 
 Labour, under Tony Blair, and the Democrats, led by Bill Clinton, used the 
 focus group, which had been invented by psychoanalysts, in order to regain 
 power.  They set out to mold their policies to people's inner desires and 
 feelings just as capitalism had learnt to do with products.  Out of this 
 grew a new culture of public relations and marketing in politics, business 
 and journalism.  One of its stars in Britain was Matthew Freud who followed 
 in the footsteps of his relation, Edward Bernays, the inventor of public 
 relations in the 1920s.  The politicians believed they were creating a new 
 and better form of democracy, one that truly responded to the inner 
 feelings of individual.  But what they did not realize was that the aim of 
 those who had originally created these techniques had not to liberate 
 people but to develop a new way of controlling them. \n\nWheelchair 
 accessible around the corner at 411 28th Street \n\n$5 donations are 
 accepted \n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/05/07/18593536.php
SUMMARY:The Century of the Self: Episode 4
LOCATION:Humanist Hall\n390  27th  Street\nuptown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway\nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/05/07/18593536.php
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