Month: May 2013

The Century of the Self

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Posted 30th November 2013 Edward Bernays sold America’s entry into WW1 on a message of spreading freedom and democracy (a practice followed by US administrations ever since). He persuaded women that cigarettes were a penile symbol of power and aligned smoking with the suffragette movement. The same techniques are used today to sell wars, economic … Read more

Economics to Save our Civilisation

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Posted 5th May 2013 In Critical Thinking we’ve been developing ideas for a new economy and communicating these ideas to other groups to expand the debate on how we may escape the rolling economic crises. This video (53 minutes) is of a presentation to the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI) in London. The … Read more