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- Sutherland is seductive, but essentially just a Marketing Executive with after-dinner speaking skills. For something a bit more robust, I'd recommend the consumer culture exposition in Adam Curtis''The Century of the Self'; particularly the segment where Edward Bernays used psychoanalysis to market cigarettes to women as feminist "torches of freedom".
Curtis' summary at the conclusion of the series works just as well as a chilling indictment of Gacha Gaming and the self-imposed Skinnerbox of the microtransaction era - "Although we feel we are free, in reality, we - like the politicians - have become the slaves of our own desires."
- Related, by Adam Curtis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self
It's on YT...
- In addition to Century of the Self, Adam Curtis has tons of other good stuff, too, and it's freely available:
- >the only other shared philosophical framework we have is the market, and whatever the limits of the church, the morals of the market seem to be making for a much colder society.
If things are colder, it's not amorality, it's colder as a side effect of cultivated self pre-occupation. For the "market" depends upon narcissism to keep consumers keep consuming. It's getting more pronounced with each successive generation. Adam Curtis - The Century of the Self is the long history of how and why: https://youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s&pp=ygUTY2VudHVyeSBvZ...
- One thing is sure that since Hayek's time, the market has become more efficient at creating and fulfilling the desires of consumers. The obligatory recommendation to see the Century of the Self by Adam Curtis for a historical perspective on consumerism.
However, Varoufakis has a point that a monopolist capitalism, enabled by technology, is not an attractive system.
- > The obligatory recommendation to see the Century of the Self by Adam Curtis
or you could take a shortcut and ask Bard:
"Advertising existed before Freud's nephew Edward L. Bernays came along. What new thing did he contribute to deserve to be called the father of modern advertising?"
