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Watchsilas216:
The Century Of Self - Part 4 (of 4)
Eight People Sipping Wine in Kettering
This episode explains how politicians on the left, in both Britain and America, turned to the techniques developed by business to read and fulfil 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 ...
Watchsilas216:
The Century Of Self - Part 3 (of 4)
There is Policeman Inside All Our Heads: He Must Be Destroyed
In the 1960s, a radical group of psychotherapists challenged the influence of Freudian ideas in America. They were inspired by the ideas of Wilhelm Reich, a pupil of Freud’s, who had turned against him and was hated by the Freud family. He believed that the inner self did not need to be...
Watchsilas216:
The Century Of Self - Part 2 (of 4)
The programme 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...
This is Halloween
http://www.youtube.com/v/INsSU8Jnx-4?fs=1&hl=en_US
My humblest apologies. I forgot that sending videos through email simply does not work well here.
Voters Nationwide To Decide On Marijuana...
In California, voters will decide Proposition 19 , The Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010, which legalizes the adult possession of limited quantities of marijuana for adults in private, and allows local governments to regulate its commercial production and retail distribution. If passed, the measure would be the most expansive modern law ever enacted regarding the adult use,...
Arkansans…are you aware of the shame brought on...
via Pharyngula on 10/27/10
These are the words of Clint McCance, a school board member in the Midland school district of Arkansas. He was a little bit annoyed that people in his school were wearing purple in remembrance of students who had been bullied into suicide.
Being a fag doesn’t give you the right to ruin the rest of our lives. If you get easily offended by being called a fag then...
