herber that the u.s. has a long very violent labor history as. a society. but the labor movement had been very strong by the 1920 s. . period not unlike today it was virtually crushed robert reich. buried. by the mincer is beginning to reconstruct. truth a dozen or israel he himself was rather sympathetic to progressive legislation that would be in the benefit of the general population but he had to 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 can through the legislation you know i am not for a were. killed last definition number live a day and hour which. is a freebie well being gradually a regiment in. friendly field i prefer that broad definition. so there was a kind of combination of a sympathetic government and by the mid thirty's very substantial peter activism. there were industrial action there were sit down strikes which are very frightening to. ownership. have to recognise a sit down. strake 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 in 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 pitched hardly a. tourist start any quality in labor management. in the course is and 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 hours they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated continued in the ninety's and of course with george w. bush went through the roof by now less than 7 percent of private sector workers have unions. the effect is that to the usual counterforce to an offensive or highly class conscious business klyce as does oath. if you're in a position of power you want to maintain class consciousness for yourself but a limited everywhere else you back to the 19th 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 and 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 and 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 of population by force too much freedom in one. labor organizer in parliamentary labor party as 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 there stand blind called fabricating consumers.

if you can fabricate a 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 photo but walter lippmann the major progress of intellectual of the 20th century. he wrote famous progressive essays on democracy and wishes for you is 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. 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 knowing who in the internet. in which that presents you with would. the proper life would be with trying to get education 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

a football hero you know an actress or 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 takes 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. 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 and that's mostly illusion you go back to the campaign rhetoric and take a look at it has very little discussion of policy issues and for very good reason because public opinion on policy is sharply disconnected from what the 2 party leadership and their financial backers want. poesy more and more is focused on the private interests that fund the campaigns. with the public being marginalized.

or. stressed to make sure that the british and the bill of the. job was to use 3. traditions which quite a long. time and i know what you mean in the list which you took a moment in there for sure you. want to talk to me short of your my it's your bonus for tribute. to mr hazlewood support i'm still looking to the spiritual tradition to be arguable that it's a studio actually a person has to be vocal or should stop them spinning. expressed she.

thinks. me dear. is this is a stick for the water bottle found in the stomach of the 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 they're in the bad was there the litter bugs are throwing us away industry should be blamed for all this waste the company has promised to reuse the plastic.

that's. in their class to. stay. you don't know that that's not close it's funny tell that i thought oh gee all i knew that that is the end of a funny thing the fun out the mountains of waste only grow higher. what politicians do in the summer. i put themselves on the line they get accept the reject. so when you want to be president. some want to be. it's a right to press the survival of freedom or can't be good but i'm interested always in the lives of our. question.

of the leading political scientists martin guillen's came out of this study of the relation in public attitudes and that would mostly what he shows is that about 70 percent of the population has no way of influencing. but they might as well be into 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 this. there is popular mobilization in activism but in very self destructive directions. taking the form of unfocused bangor 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 15th. they were 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 asian celebrated the way it is needed state it's a day of mourning it's

a day in which some in power has nothing to do with 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 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 sympathies. or their debut to a sport in which they're going driven out. that society so ugly i don't even know who would want to live in it i would want my children to . get 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 maximize personal gain at the expense of others and any society has made a small society based on that principle is ugly and that 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 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 society. when it's centrally true.

where there are structures of authority domination and hire somebody gives the. somebody takes them as they are not self-justifying 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 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 1st in the world and it's not in the bill of rights the time that the constitution and freedom of speech issues began to come to the supreme court and in the early 20th century. the major contributions came in the 1960 s. one of the leading ones was a case of knowing 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 to. 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 a non-trivial extent of also spent

a lot of my life in activism some of that doesn't show up publicly but you know the show not terribly good at. to the greatest organizer i think that we can see quite clearly some very very serious effects was in our. culture and. which are 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 to put it right. but the activists are people who have created the rights that we enjoy. in the area carrying out policies 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 but 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 for just 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 organise struggle for the right susan if done in the past and you can win many victories. close friend for many years later howard zinn. to put it in his words that what matters is the countless small t. sieve the gnome people who play the basis for the significant events that enter history. there's a ones who've done things in the past the mentalist do it future.

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out for a trophy what do you think ok a more affordable option $25.00 text birds. and one red rose another suggestion geo political jeopardy parody no political cookout where we will literally. believe it's. late night show it's a rare format these days and it's cheap all you need is an old microphone in a printed banner. to leave me with i guess i can do this campbell after politics gone wild like music. ok crosstalk is not about hype it's about meaning 10 years of talk and still going strong. peter if you want to change something why don't we get rid of the bow tie no that is too much. i'm.

ready ready ready ready sure to stop at the continuing to grow. i just never know very good about the idea of bringing children into the world because i didn't feel like things were in very good shape that a life was just going to be a lot of software program. there's no reason. to take things that are to me the. movie is a myth something else that. everybody's scared to talk about it certifiable is truly dependent on us addressing this issue and if we can't even talk about it and

have a conversation about it then. ready one else chose seemed wrong. when old rules just don't hold. any new world that is yet to shape our disdain and become agitated and indeed equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. today there are good tennis and bad at it it's the bad news in yemen the united states deems to be a threat the good. word in syria the cia and the u.s. military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. where they

were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up right wing military funding an army of death squads there's no any more because there's always a small. really good this is a profit. somewhere in paris you know so many people reference the marie antoinette let them eat cake and then you know historians have gone back and they said you know it's actually my cake and brioche brioche you know that so i brought in actually oh my god what a mess we brought in actual brioche this is a brioche slice there at the history and so this is what she suggested that the peasants should be eating because they had run out of power to say this is a brioche is a slightly nicer version of that there's a few in the cupboard let's throw that to the peasants and maybe that'll shut them up but.

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