there is one organized force which traditionally plenty of fluids but with all its flaws it's been in the forefront of the. efforts to improve the lives of the general population that's organized labor it's also a barrier to corporate tyranny so it's the one barrier to this vicious cycle going on which does lead to corporate tyranny. for a major reason for the concentrated on us fanatic attack on unions are organized labor is they are a democratizing force. to provide a barrier that defends workers' rights but also popular rights generally.

and if that interferes with the pariah it is now or for those who own and manage inside it. i should say that anti union sentiment in the united states among elites is so strong that the fundamental couper of labor rights the basic principle in the international labor organization is the rate of free association which would mean the right to form unions u.s. has never ratified. but i think the us may be alone among major sadie's in their respect. it's considered so far out of the spectrum of american politics it literally has never been considered. or that the us has a law on. very violent labor history is. society.

but the labor movement had been very strong by the one nine hundred twenty s. in a period not unlike today it was virtually crushed robert reich. a very very . young and. by the mid series it began to reconstruct. france doesn't arose felt he himself was rather sympathetic to progressive legislation that would be in the benefit of the general population but he had to somehow get it passed so he informed labor leaders and others forced me to do it. what he meant is it

going to help demonstrate we're going to protest develop the labor movement. when the packard pressures fission and be able can through the legislation you know i am not for a we're. still last definition number eleven a i doubt when many. great people well being gradually read your mind in endless. friendly deal. i prefer that broad definition. so there was a kind of combination of being a sympathetic government and by the mid thirty's very substantial funkier activism . there were industrial action there were sit down strikes which are very frightening two. hundred ships. have to recognize a sit down straight is just one step before saying we don't need bushes we can run . this player sales.

and business was told to read the business press say in the late thirty's they were talking about to the hazard facing industrialists in the rising political power of the masses which has to be repressed things were on hold during the second world war but immediately after the second world war the business offensive began in force and pitched partly as a. tourist start any quality in labor management. and of course the ism was used for a massive corporate propaganda offensives to attack union. increased sharply during the reagan years and reagan pretty much told the business world if you want to illegally break urbanizing efforts and strikes go ahead they are in violation of

the law and if they do not report for work within forty eight hours they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated to continue to the ninety's and of course with george w. bush went through the roof by now less than seven percent of private sector workers have unions. the effect is that the usual counterforce to an offensive or highly class conscious business class is dissolved. no if you're in a position of power you want to maintain class consciousness for yourself but a limited everywhere else you know back to the nineteenth century in the early days of the industrial revolution in the united states working people were very conscious of this they in fact overwhelmingly regarded that wage labor

as not very different from slavery to the different only in that it was temporary effect of such a popular idea that was a slogan of the republican party. well that was a very sharp class consciousness in the interests of power and privilege it's good to drive those ideas out of people's heads you don't want them to know that they're an oppressed class so this is one of the few societies magicks don't talk about class in fact the national class is very simple one who gives the orders who follows and that basically defines class it's more nuanced and complex but that's basically it. the public relations industry the advertising industry which is dedicated to

creating consumers it's a phenomenon developed in the freest countries in britain and the united states and the reason is pretty clear it became clear by a say a century ago that it was not going to be so easy to control the population by force too much freedom and one. labor going to use in parliamentary labor parties in many countries women started to get the french as and so on she had of other means of controlling people and it was understood and expressed they have to control them by control of. beliefs and attitudes well one of the best ways to control people in terms of attitudes is what the great political economists they're stunned blind called fabricating consumers. if you can fabricate want to. make obtaining things that are just about within your

reach the essence of life they're going to be trapped into becoming a consumer's. and you read the business press say nine hundred twenty s. it talks about the need to direct people to the superficial things of life like fashionable consumption and that will keep them out of our hair. you find this doctrine all through progressive intellectual thought but walter lippmann the major progress of intellectual of the twentieth century. he wrote famous progressive essays on democracy in which his view was exactly that the public must be put in their place so that the responsible men can make decisions without interference from the be willed and heard. there to be spectators not participants then you get a properly functioning democracy straight back to madison on to the polls memory and

so on and the advertising industry just exploded. with with this as its goal fabricating consumers. and it's done with great sophistication. many whilst down. as one of the last known while very singular. whom are aware of the kind. of the ideal is which actually seemed to did. we're let's see teenage girls they have a free said area afternoon will go walking in a shopping mall not the library or somewhere else. the idea is to try to control everyone to turn the whole society into the perfect system. perfect system would be a society based on

a diet of pair the pair is you and your television set or maybe now you in the internet. in which that presents you with would. the proper life would be with trying to gauge and you spend your time and effort to gaining those things which you don't need you don't want maybe to throw away. but that's the measure of a decent life. what we see is in say advertising on television if you've ever taken an economics course you know that markets are supposed to be based on informed consumers making rational choices well if we had a system like that a market system in a television ad would consist of say general motors putting up information saying here's what we have for sale a samba an ad for a car is an ad for occurs in football hero you know an actress of the car doing

some crazy thing like going up a mountain or something the point is to create uninformed consumers who will make irrational choices that's what advertising is all about. and when the same institutions p.r. . system runs elections they do it the same way. they want to create an uninformed electorate which will make irrational truisms go off against their own interests and we see it every time one of these extravaganzas take place. right after the election. president obama won an award from the advertising industry for the best marketing campaign and was reported here if you go to the international business press executives were euphoric you know they said we've been selling candidates marketing candidates like

you know toothpaste ever since reagan and this is the greatest achievement we have i don't usually agree with therapy. and but when she mocks the much she calls the hopi changey stuff she's right first of all obama didn't really promise anything so that's mostly illusion you go back to the campaign rhetoric and take a look at this very little discussion of policy issues and for very good reason because public opinion on policy is sharply disconnected from what the two party leadership and their financial backers want. poesy even more and more is focused on the private interests that fund the campaigns. who is a public being marginalized.

seem wrong. to me. to stamp out. any gains from an equal trail. when some find themselves well supplied. just on the for common ground. they days it has become at that has become at about what iran is they in the case of you it gives it nothing is a one way is to leaving gays if you lead to yes even more figures for your god because it gives the tax solders to be able to vote. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going

to do next the pope about different clubs on one hand it is logical to sit in the home field where everything is familiar on the other hand i wanted a new challenge and a fresh perspective from time used to suppressing the canvas old or not difficult. i'm going to talk about football narvi or else you think i was going to do. by the way ways of the fly here. join me every thursday on the alex garland show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see you then. banks geysers financial survivor you know they say money to develop. close to d.c. this is our central bank support diagram is another problem i now say started.

really. political scientist martin guillen's came out of a study of the relation between public attitudes and the wood poesy what he shows is that about seventy percent of the population has no way of influencing. they might as well be and some other country. and the population knows. what it's led to is a population that angry frustrated hates institutions. and

it's not acting constructively to try to respond to that. there is popular mobilization and activism but in very self destructive directions. taking the form of unfocused anger attacks on one another and on vulnerable targets that's what happens in cases like this. it is corrosive of social relations but that's the point the point is to make people hate and fear each other and look out only for themselves and don't do anything for anyone else. one place you see it strikingly is on april fifteenth. april fifteenth as a kind of a measure that they appear taxes of how democratic a society is a different city if society is really democratic april fifteenth would be a day of celebration it's

a day when the population gets together decides to fund the programs and activities that they have formulated agreed upon which could be bettered now so asian celebrated the way it is needed state it's a day of mourning it's a day in which some alien power you know has nothing to do with you is coming down to steal your hard earned money and you do everything you can be keep from doing. well that is a good. out of a measure of the extent to which at least in popular consciousness democracy is actually functioning. not her attractive picture. be . the tendencies that we've been describing within american society and those there

are reversed it's going to be an extremely ugly society i'm a society that's based on adam smith's final maxim you know all for myself nothing for anyone else. aside in which normal human instincts an emotion of sympathy so are there any betrayal sport in which they're going driven out. that society so ugly i don't even know who want to live in it i wouldn't want my children to. give the society is based on control by private wealth it will reflect the values that in fact does reflect. a value that is green and that lead to maximize personal gain at the expense of others any society has made a small society based on that principle as

a good way to control. a global society based on that principle is headed for massive destruction. and i don't think we're smart enough to design in any detail what a perfectly just and free society would be like i think we can give some guidelines and more significant we can ask how we can progress in that direction. john dewey the the leading social philosopher in the late twentieth century he argued that until all institutions production commerce. media unless they're all under participatory democratic control we will not have a functioning democratic society. as he put it policy will be the shadow cast by business over

a society. that's centrally true. where there are structures of authority domination and hire somebody gives the orders somebody takes them as they are not self-justifying who they have to justify themselves and their burden to prove to me. will if you take a close look usually find they can't justify themselves if they can't we're going to be dismantling. trying to expand the domain of freedom and justice but dismantling that form of illegitimate authority and in fact progress over the years but we'll thankfully recognize as progress has been just that the way things change

is because lots of people are working all the time and you know they're working in their communities in their workplace or wherever they happen to be and they're building up the basis for popular movements which are going to make changes and that's the way everything has ever happened in history. takes a freedom of speech. and one of the real achievements of american society is first in the world and it's not in the bill of rights. it's time that the constitution freedom of speech issues began to come to the supreme court in the early twentieth century. the major contributions came in the one nine hundred sixty s. one of the leading ones was a case of going civil rights movement well but then you had a mass popular movement which was demanding rights. refusing to back down and in that context the supreme court did establish a pretty high standard freedom of speech or it takes

a women's right women also began identifying oppressive structures refusing to accept them or he'd go their people to join with them well that's her right to return. to non-trivial extent if also spent a lot of my life in activism into that doesn't show up publicly but you know i should not terribly good at it i'm not the greatest organizer i think that we can see quite clearly some very very serious defects in our. culture and. which are going to have to be corrected by operating out of that is commonly accepted i think we're going to have to find new ways but it has. been the activists or people who have created the rights that we enjoy. in the arctic carrying out process based on information that they're receiving but also contributing to the understanding remembers are separate from process. to try to do

things you learn you learn that with the world it's like that feeds back to the understanding of how to go on. there's huge opportunity it is a very free society still the freest world. government has very limited capacity to coerce corporate business may try to coerce but there are mechanisms. so there's a lot. to be done if people are going to struggle for the right says they've done it in the past and can win many victories commune community. close friend for many years later cowards in. to put it in his words that what matters is the countless small deeds of unknown

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one person is reportedly killed and several others wounded in a shooting on the. track. remains. enough they are looking for a thirty seven year old turkish connection with the incident. also ahead on the program new zealand government responds to friday's terror attack on two announcing it will make changes to the laws as prime minister. media platforms do more to prevent the spread of extremist. spread and violent.