every day the idea was that let's tell consumers they're the bad ones they're the litter box they're throwing us away industry should be blamed for all of this waste the company has long promised to reuse the plastic. and it's not as if it's to cook at susie's doesn't result in a net that sooth will set for their classes because they think with me on my own are you saying you don't want that assessment of xix funding he doesn't denounce and old me on i knew that that is the end of a footy team the fun out the mountains of waste only grow higher. there is one organized force which traditionally 20 floors but with all its flaws

it's been in the forefront of the. efforts to improve the lives of the general population and it's we're going to slaver social a barrier to corporate tyranny so it's the one barrier to this vicious cycle going on which does lead to corporate tyranny. or a. good major reason for the concentrated on us fanatic attack on unions on organized labor is they are a democratizing force. to provide a barrier that defends the workers' rights grosser popular rights generally. don't it that it interferes with the parotid. our leaders who own and manage this

society. i should say said andy union sentiment in the united states among elites 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 very violent labor history is how society. 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. franklin delano roosevelt 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 to get through the legislation you know i am not sure. definition number 11 day and hour which many

say 3 people were being gradually a regular man in. friendly field i prefer that brought out the information. so there was a kind of a combination of a sympathetic government and by the mid thirty's very substantial 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 by yourselves. and business was told you 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 test partly yack. yack. to restart any quality in labor management relations. in a currency 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 be legally brave 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 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 the wage labor as not very different from slavery that 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 thought 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. 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 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 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 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 but that's 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 portie leadership and their financial backers want. the most even more and more it is focused on the private interests that fund the campaigns. it was a public being marginalized ready ready ready ready ready ready. i

am sure the need to stop at the continuing to grow. i just never felt 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 is no reason we're more world 10 things that are to midnight. there is no reason to make something else that knew there were loads of everybody's scared to talk about it certifiable is really dependent on us addressing this issue and if we can even talk about it and we can even have a conversation of that it then. ready of the day there are good terrorists and bad that is the bad better. is that those in the end when the united states deems to be

a threat the good that it is that goes a lot in syria the cia and u.s. military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up the right way military juntas funding an army that's why there's not any more because there's always a small firm or a really good this. prophet. be . one of the leading political scientists martin guillen's 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. the images will 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 and activism but in very self destructive directions. taking the form of unfocused bangar 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 at only for them so. oh and don't do anything for anyone else.

place you see it 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 the station 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 do with you is coming down to steal your hard earned money and you do everything you 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 there are a verst it's going to be an extremely ugly society i mean to say hey that's based on adam smith's final 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 is so ugly i can't even know who'd want to live in it i would 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 he 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 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 they have to justify themselves and their burden to prove to me.

we'll 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 the 1st 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 20th century. the major contributions came in the 1960 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 to. women also began identifying oppressive structures refusing to accept them or he'd go their people to join with them will that's her right to return. to the non trivial extent of also spent a lot of my life in activism i mean that doesn't show up publicly but you know the show not terribly good it was not the greatest organizer i think that we can see quite clearly a very very serious defect was an error that error. 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 of what is right. but the activists are people who have created the rights that we enjoy. in the area 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 what the world is 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 his 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 organise struggle for the right susan if done in the past and you can win many victories.

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