Comments on: Aaron C. Wolf is Dead http://www.acwolf.com/2009/08/07/aaron-c-wolf-is-dead/ Information Architecture, Ancestral Knowledge, Modern Survival Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:07:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Michelle http://www.acwolf.com/2009/08/07/aaron-c-wolf-is-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-368 Michelle Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:47:29 +0000 http://www.acwolf.com/?p=60#comment-368 Wow! I realize as reading this blog, I met you on the other side! Whoa that is deep and very cool! It will be an interesting journey my brother! Wow! I realize as reading this blog, I met you on the other side! Whoa that is deep and very cool! It will be an interesting journey my brother!

]]> By: Freud http://www.acwolf.com/2009/08/07/aaron-c-wolf-is-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-256 Freud Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:11:46 +0000 http://www.acwolf.com/?p=60#comment-256 Made me wonder if you've ever seen the video "Century of the Self". It was a special run on BBC about Edward Bernays, Sigmund Freud's nephew, who took Freud's ideas and created what we call Public Relations. He was instrumental in the movement to control the masses by encouraging a consumer culture using psychological manipulation. As you have pointed out, the internet has become the modern and much superior substitute for the focus groups that were originally used for this purpose... http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8953172273825999151 "This series is about how those in power have used Freud's theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy." - Adam Curtis Made me wonder if you’ve ever seen the video “Century of the Self”.
It was a special run on BBC about Edward Bernays, Sigmund Freud’s
nephew, who took Freud’s ideas and created what we call Public Relations.
He was instrumental in the movement to control the masses by encouraging a consumer culture using psychological manipulation. As you have pointed out, the internet has become the modern and much superior substitute for the focus groups that were originally used for this purpose…

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8953172273825999151

“This series is about how those in power have used Freud’s theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy.” – Adam Curtis

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