an unmanaged society. i should say said anti union sentiment in the united states among the leads is so strong that the fundamental couper of labor rights in the basic principle in the international labor organization is the rate of free association which would mean the right to form unions and 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. herber that the us has a lawn a very violent labor history is. society. but the labor movement had been very strong by the 1920 s. in the period not unlike today it was virtually crushed robert reich like

a very very. weak. her. by the mincer is beginning to reconstruct. franklin delano roosevelt and 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 the labor leaders and others forced me to do it. what he meant is you go out and demonstrate we're going to protest develop the labor movement. when the popular pressures fission and be able can through the legislation you know i am not for a rip. definition number 11 day and hour which won many say

3 people were being gradually a regular man in. tripoli field i prefer that brought out information. so there was a kind of combination of the a sympathetic government and the mid thirty's very substantial interactive is. there were industrial action there were a sit down strikes which were very frightening to. ownership. and to recognize a sit down strike is just one step before saying we don't need bush that we can run this by yourselves. 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 2nd world war but immediately after the 2nd world war the business offensive began in force and test partly act. to restart many quality and 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 $48.00 hours they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated continued the ninety's and of course with george w. bush went through the roof and now less than 7. percent of private sector workers have

unions. the effect is that the usual counter force to an offensive or highly class conscious business class is dissolved. if you're in a position of power you want to maintain class consciousness for yourself but a limited everywhere else here back to the 19th century in the early days of the industrial revolution and ignited 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 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 ising 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 920 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 20th 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 what you actually see need 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 has 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 somber 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 choices so often 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. ellen but when she mocks the much she calls the hopi

changey stuff she's right 1st of all obama didn't really promise anything in this mostly illusion you 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 2 party leadership and their financial backers want. poesy more and more it is focused on the private interests that fund the campaigns. it was a public being marginalized. in a world of big partisan. lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to

dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. this is a pretty this sort of feel all the same whether it's just bush but if. you're like yeah we'll bulbs i knew it needed it was now i go to the wellness them to look. long losing is its ability. to get enough of him you know that all you want to go to the but me i'm not a. liberal. enough well it was pretty good way to let him. but you still do which could go i'm going to be done. but i come.

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am i am. one of the leading political scientists martin jones came out with a study of the relation between public attitudes and. what he shows is that about 70 percent of the population has no way of influencing. they might as well be into

the mother country. and the population knows. what it's led to is a population that angry frustrated and i hate institutions. and it's not acting constructively to try to respond to this. 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 to 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 15th. every 15th is going to measure

the day if they are taxes of how democratic a society is a different place if a society is really democratic april 15th 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 better than that situation 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. 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 it's going to be an extremely ugly society i'm a society 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 there e.b. to a sport in which they're going driven out. that society so ugly it can even know who'd want to live in it i wouldn't want my children too. if the society is based on controlled by private wealth it will reflect

the values that in fact does reflect. a value that is green and the desire to maximize 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 leading social philosopher in the late 20th 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 they are not self-justifying who they have to justify themselves and their burden to prove to me. will if you take. close look usually find they can't justify themselves to say can

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 1st in the world in that it's not 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 20th century. the major contributions came in the 1960 s. one of the leading ones was

a case involving 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 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 true to the extent of 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 and not the greatest organizer i think that we can see quite clearly some very very serious defect was an error that error. which are going to have to be corrected by operating out of the right that is commonly accepted i think. we're going to have to find new ways of what is right.

but the activists are people who have created the rights that we enjoy. in the army carrying out cosies based on information that they're receiving but also contributing to the understanding remembers or separate process. that you have agreed to try to do things you learn you learn but with the world it's like that feeds back to the understanding of how to go on. and there's huge opportunities it is a very free society still for is the world. government is 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 organize struggle for the right susan if done in the past and you can win many victories.

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it's a 2 chair economy there's 2 tutor for worlds that list the i just in america so if i go into a big bank at bank of america citi bank was fargo bank and i say i want to borrow $100000.00 and i want you to charge me as your percent interest rate on that and then i want to posit that $100000.00 that your back and i want you to pay me 5 percent and i want to therefore collect all that income i get a tax free ok can i do that now but a back can do that. when i almost chose seemed wrong when old rules just don't hold. any new world yet to shape our disdain to become agitated and in gains from an equals

betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. we have a situation that is very new and that's why. it's like i feel like before the war were 2 people who were dying but in the morning and there was no end of the school board you know the 2 so the boy it was through to the right of the world through and. through the as a medic and it's with widespread simplicity that is pushed through people today. in many diseases because of this would you coolly broke up with. what politicians do something to. be put themselves on the line to get accepted or

rejected. so when you want to be president and. somehow want to. have to go right to beatrice dislikable 3 in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the house. this should all. this is a stick up from the water bottle phone in the stomach of a fish the brand is spawns of the coca-cola company which sells millions of bottles of soda every day the idea was that let's tell consumers there are the bad ones there the litter bugs are throwing this away industry should be blamed for all this waste the company has long promised to reuse the plastic. as it sits do cookouts lose excuse. in maine that seems cool sets feel something they're classy christic sikorsky on my end are you staying on your own that special projects

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