mr ferguson lets the mass marketers off way too easy.the relationship that marketers form with consumers at a very young age is carefully planned and executed.
please take the time to watch this excellent doc from adam curtis:
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Century-of-the-Self-full-four-part-documentary
it's a pretty accurate account on how things have changed in the west's view of individuality and sense of self and how that sense has been manipulated by appealing to our "irrational" emotions.

knowledge by itself garners little but the act of aquiring.
knowledge in conjunction with experience,tempered with reason is wisdom.
saying that an older persons advice,thoughts or perceptions are no longer relevant due to their lack of understanding of all things "new"(translation:young)not only reveals a lack of historical comprehension,but is powerfully naive.
which is very much a "youthful" trait.

Thanks for the kind words.

Perhaps I am a kindred spirit.

In reply to this comment by enoch:
ok,
EVERY time i go to post a documentary that i found fantastic..
its already been posted.
and whos name do i see thats doing all this posting?
FARHAD2000
are you my long lost brother or something?
because we seem to have the same tastes in journalists.
adam curtis docs are my fave,but john pilger kicks ass too.
good job my man,
in stealing my desired documentaries!!!
hehe...
namaste.

ok,
EVERY time i go to post a documentary that i found fantastic..
its already been posted.
and whos name do i see thats doing all this posting?
FARHAD2000
are you my long lost brother or something?
because we seem to have the same tastes in journalists.
adam curtis docs are my fave,but john pilger kicks ass too.
good job my man,
in stealing my desired documentaries!!!
hehe...
namaste.

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The Adam Curtis Documentaries (Power of Nightmares, Century of Self, and The Trap) are all on google video and all are critical viewing.

Thanks for the links

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Adam Curtis - The Power of Nightmares, the whole documentary:
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Power-of-Nightmares-part-1
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Power-of-Nightmares-part-2
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Power-of-Nightmares-part-3
*politics
*documentaries
*worldaffairs
*lies

Adam Curtis - The Power of Nightmares, the whole documentary:
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Power-of-Nightmares-part-1
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Power-of-Nightmares-part-2
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Power-of-Nightmares-part-3
*politics
*documentaries
*worldaffairs
*lies

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Along these same lines, I also recommend watching all four parts of Adam Curtis' fascinating BBC documentary, The Century of Self, about how propaganda has been used to control and manipulate mass social behavior.

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One of my most favourite Adam Curtis films. Should be compulsory viewing.
related - http://videocu.lt/news.php?id=79

Far and away my favourite series from Adam Curtis. Unlike so many anti-consumerism-rant-as-documentary films, Century of the Self lays bare the foundations of the consumer society.

thanks for the promote

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*promote

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