Century of the Self -

Has /user/ ever watched Century of the Self?

This is a wonderful documentary - and quite frightening. It is amazing how people like Freud and Wilhelm Reich - together with capitalism - destroyed Western civilization.

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Watched it a few times. It is incredible.

Yeah. It got me into learning about all the 20th century sociologists, media theorists, psychoanalysis and stuff like that. A precursor to being redpilled.

I'm beyond surprised that Century of the Self was actually aired on television. It's beyond red-pilled and highly substantive. This is how the world works. As the farmer manipulates the instincts of cattle and other livestock, corporations manipulates our instincts in order to sell us things.

Read "Images of Man"

It doesnt matter.

I've watched and many of Adam Curtis' works.
Western civilisation is destroying itself. You sound like a crazed conspiracy theorist - Edward Bernays , Freud's nephew, applied Freud's works to marketing. The degradation of society into shallow consumerism and nihilistic liberalism is the result of 400-300 years of capitalist development. No-one has actively attempted to 'destroy' Western civilisation.

I found out about it from Russel Brand of all places. And no I don't like him, someone reposted him.

It was up on YouTube then taken down. I think it's back up. Might be on liveleak as well.

That's fair. I suppose what I meant that Freud, Reich - together with capitalism and without intent - have been chipping away at Western Civilization.

This whole Capitalism business is really quite disturbing.

I guess the one thing thing that really stuck out to me was how boomers are a waste of a generation and need to be gassed.

Century of the Self is redpilled in that special way where leftists also will like it. I guess the angle was "look how capitalists and fascists used mass psychology to manipulate people" but when you look into those strains of thought and their descendants, it's also the roots of the current progressive globalism.

If you're interested (and haven't seen it already), there is a great documentary series by Curtis called 'The Power of Nightmares'. It goes through many of the same themes, and talks about the ideological underpinning of both neo-liberalism and Islamic fundamentalism.

Yeah it's on YouTube. Looks like the whole thing.
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I'm going to watch it - perhaps tonight.

This documentary is terribly red-pill. And that's coming from a seasoned red-piller.

this is the documentary that redpilled me. every user should watch

>been chipping away at Western Civilization
but capitalism is what built the west. You can't lay the blame on cultural decay on the idea that built it. Capitalism is only as good as the people participating in it.

X-plain.

>The film compares the rise of the neoconservative movement in the United

I don't like neocons either but is he going to cuck for liberals in this one?

No social system rely on good or bad people. The viability of a system can only be measured by its ability to sustain and enhance humanity. You're just shifting blame from a system to individuals, when individuals themselves are part of the system. The cultural decay that now exists in the West wouldn't have happened if unmitigated consumerism didn't exist in the first instance.

Capitalism hasn't done the West much good, culturally. The real high of Western civilisation was the Hellenistic period.

No, he just goes through an objective history of both developments. Curtis defines himself as a libertarian (not in the right-wing American sense). I think he was a socialist in his early days, but never a liberal.

Ah. Ok book marked it.

>is only as good as the people participating in it.
I've heard that one before.

This is what Molyneux talked about. I watched SoS before I knew of him.

That was an interesting watch, thanks.

This is good.