Anyone see Glenn Beck's Sept 18 show?

[Ptrash]

I caught the last 10 minutes of his interview with two authors predicting a coming econmic apocalypse. He ended it by telling people their money might be worthless tomorrow morning. Do these people assume any public responsibility for their actions? I just wonder how everyone keeps it together with a new vision of doom--trerror, missle attack, global warming, economic meltdown, etc being predicted everyday.

PS I tried finding it on his website but couldn't, amonst all the other fear mongering. Which is truly ironic, given a show (http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0705/02/gb.01.html) he had on back in May, about the selling of climate-related fear regarding global warming. And doubly ironic, since a show that criticizes global warming worrywards by quoting them and just calling htem on their hypocrisy is still scaring the hell out of people.

[@_@ Artman]

I caught the last 10 minutes of his interview with two authors predicting a coming econmic apocalypse. He ended it by telling people their money might be worthless tomorrow morning. Do these people assume any public responsibility for their actions? I just wonder how everyone keeps it together with a new vision of doom--trerror, missle attack, global warming, economic meltdown, etc being predicted everyday.

PS I tried finding it on his website but couldn't, amonst all the other fear mongering. Which is truly ironic, given a show (http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0705/02/gb.01.html) he had on back in May, about the selling of climate-related fear regarding global warming. And doubly ironic, since a show that criticizes global warming worrywards by quoting them and just calling htem on their hypocrisy is still scaring the hell out of people.

The Century of Self (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2637635365191428174)

The business and, increasingly, the political world uses PR to read and fulfill our desires, to make their products or speeches as pleasing as possible to us. Curtis raises the question of the intentions and roots of this fact. Where once the political process was about engaging people's rational, concious minds, as well as facilitating their needs as a society, the documentary shows how by employing the tactics of psychoanalysis, politicians appeal to irrational, primitive impulses that have little apparent bearing on issues outside of the narrow self-interest of a consumer population. He cites a Wall Street banker as saying "We must shift America from a needs- to a desires-culture. People must be trained to desire, to want new things, even before the old have been entirely consumed. [...] Man's desires must overshadow his needs."


The Shock Doctrine (http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine)

These events are examples of “the shock doctrine”: using the public’s disorientation following massive collective shocks – wars, terrorist attacks, or natural disasters -- to achieve control by imposing economic shock therapy. Sometimes, when the first two shocks don’t succeed in wiping out resistance, a third shock is employed: the electrode in the prison cell or the Taser gun on the streets.

Meet the new fear
Same as the old fear

[Ptrash]

The Century of Self (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2637635365191428174)




The Shock Doctrine (http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine)



Meet the new fear
Same as the old fear


It's a small world. I saw that BBC film in a Media Studies class at Hunter College, in April, 2006. BTW, are you sure the airdate--Aug 6, 2006--is correct?

It's also funny that you mention The Shock Doctrine, as I'd recently heard about it and another book, which I can;t recall, about the conservative assault on gov't over the past 27 years. Both seem to be making waves.