for bunions us has never ratified. but i think the us may be alone among major societies and 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 are. very violent labor history is. society. but the labor movement had been very strong by the one nine hundred twenty s. in the period not unlike today it was virtually kirsch robert reich. by the mincer is beginning to reconstruct. france doesn't

roosevelt he himself was rather sympathetic to chris if 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 packer pressures fission and be able to control the legislation you know i am not for a we're. still last definition number eleven a i doubt when many as a freebie blow well being gradually read your man in endless. friendly deal. i prefer that brought out information. so there was a kind of combination of a sympathetic government. and by the mid thirty's very substantial focuser activism

. there were industrial actions there were the sit down strikes which were very frightening to. ownership. have to recognize a sit down strike is just one step before saying we don't need bush that 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 and 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 test partly act. to restart any quality in labor management relation. to mccarthyism 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 and now less than seven percent of private sector workers have unions. the effect is that the usual counterforce to an offensive are highly class conscious business clueless as does oath. if you're in. position of power you want to maintain class consciousness for

yourself but all limited everywhere else here 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. wage labor as not very different from slavery a 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 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 sing parliamentary labor parties in many countries women started to get the french as and so on she had to have 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 him out of our hair. you find his 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 set or afternoon we'll 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 in 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 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 but that's mostly illusion to go back to the campaign rhetoric and take a look at this very little discussion of poesy issues and for very good reason because public opinion on poesy is sharply disconnected from what the two party leadership and their financial backers want. poesy more and more it is

focused on the private interests that fund the campaigns. who is a public being marginalized. as an ego of theirs and you think there's an ego. officer. told to get up off the ground in yasser began to tear down.

your game face on the sounds of an mit grown man the christening essentially the officer who. threw his john. wished to go away from the officer of the toy out of his crib. he obviously did a kind of lunge for the weapon once missed and then when it happened on chase one. didn't hit him i never saw any contact between the two any kind went back to where they were so the answer is back here there try again fifteen feet apart at this point and that's when the officer pulled out his gun and he did turn three. i think contests are b.s. did not happen the last. possible because there is a still a turn it into. say. the same position upset or be out in the context. of the international mall are more more on the serbian side

i think not all noticing forty four but also just find the lack which got a nice island movement inability of all four corners. i do think the numbers mean something they've measured the us with over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar foreign tempi each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to be old rich eight point six percent world market thirty percent some with four hundred to five hundred three first circuit first second and fifth we rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember one one business showed you know

ford commit one and only boom but. you know my phone line smokes i don't make an incredible made in the muslim on muslim brought up i'm going to know them better than one such as yourself to get a. a lot of. other activity had. she was even. more of the i guess them. down on par for the final five most good guys get up but it was better than half. the battle or that

and that was that one for more than. six. of the leading political scientists martin guillen's came out with a study of the relation between public attitudes would mostly what he shows is that about seventy percent of the population has no way of influencing. they might as well be and the mother country. and the population knows.

what it's led to is a population that angry frustrated hate institutions. and it's not acting constructively to try to respond to. his popular mobilization and activism but in very self destructive direction. 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 to hate and fear each other and look out only for themselves and don't do anything for anyone else. play she said strikingly as on april fifteenth. april fifteenth is going to measure

the day of prayer taxes of how democratic a society is a different league if a 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 their station celebrated the way it is needed state it's a day of mourning it's a day in which some alien power has nothing to do if you is coming down to steal your hard earned money and you do everything it can they keep from doing it. and that is a kind of a measure of the extent to which at least in popular consciousness democracy is actually functioning. not her attractive picture.

the tendencies that we've been describing within american society unless they're reverse to it's going to be an extremely ugly society i mean to say hey that's based on adam smith's maxim you know all for myself nothing for anyone else. associated in which normal human instincts an emotion of sympathy so they're e.b. to a sport in which they're kind of like driven out. that society so ugly i don't even know who'd want to live in it i wouldn't want my children to. defy 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 the desire to

maximise personal gain at the expense of others and any society has made a small society based on that principle is ugly but it can survive 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. their burden of proof to me. will if you take a close look usually find they can't justify themselves to say can't we ought 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 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. one of the real achievements of american society it's the first in the world in that it's not in the bill of rights it's time that the constitution and 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 in voting the 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 rights. 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 run . on true to the extent of also spent a lot of my life in activism going to that doesn't show up publicly but you know i should not terribly good at it and not the greatest organizer i think that we can see quite clearly some very very serious. the fact was in our. culture in. which you're going to have to be corrected by operating outside of work 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. the journey

carrying out. cosies based on information that they're receiving but also contributing to the understanding remembers or separately process. that you have agreed to try to do things you learn you learn it with the world it's like that feeds back to the understanding of how to go. there's huge opportunities 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 can be done if people organise struggle for the right susan if done in the past and you can win many victories.

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them freeze on the sounds of an mit grown man the christening essentially the officer of the guard go through his own. through which to do away from the officer . of his group. the officer did they kind of lunge for the weapon once missed and then when it happened on tree swung as god says he didn't hit him i never saw any contact me to do any kind of went back to where they were so the officers back here there try again fifteen feet apart at this point and that's when the officer pulled out his gun and he did it on three. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. dramatic development only. i don't see how.

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