From: Boris Kraut Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 23:38:07 +0100 Category: Message-ID: <20130308233807.Ls2m4C@silberbruch> Organization: Keywords: Comments: To: undisclosed-recipients: ; Subject: [.plan] Zitat des Tages Adam Curtis - Century of Self: > The World's Fair was an extraordinary success and captured > America's imagination. The vision it portrayed was of a new > form of democracy in which business responded to people's > innermost desires in a way politicians could never do. But > it was a form of democracy that depended on treating people > not as active citizens like Roosevelt did but as passive > consumers. Because this Bernays believed, was the key to > control in a mass democracy.