Consumed: Inside the Belly of the Beast

00:00:17 I delivered the message. Now what? Now let's check the second message.

00:02:51 hard to try and figure it all out.

00:05:09 us the story, but that we kind of understand, through media in many ways. We understand

00:07:19 Addictions, depression, and mental health issues are becoming part of everyday conversation.

00:09:19 In Britain, the average household is as if there were three planets rather than one.

00:11:03 and research suggests if we understand the mechanisms of the brain we begin to understand

00:13:05 It's channeled into the goods and services that we buy. So, the principal way you're

00:15:01 selection over time has shaped our psychologies, our behaviors in such a way that we both desire

00:17:29 idea it spreads. It's a new thing, it's a fine thing ... it's

00:19:57 for a comfortable life Bernays set about making consumerism the way we show our success and

00:22:00 and still be viable and attractive on the mating market. I think that that is a delusion

00:24:15 I think the marketing revolution is convincing every consumer that you've got to be the center

00:27:04 to coast, through repetative selling in exciting T.V commercials. Here's a preview.

00:28:57 we are at now is we've allowed virtual reality to become more than just a game.

00:31:24 are the mechanisms that surround you. The refrigerators, washing machines, you know

00:33:38 long-term in its environment without damaging the carrying capacity of that environment..for

00:35:23 these fantile properties that advertisers use very cleverly can break. They can die

00:37:17 we know how to do that. But what we don't know how to do is to design a washing machine

00:39:12 in between. So there's always a context for that striving to be higher status because

00:41:03 becoming aware and for deepening what it means to be human, to carry the future forward.

00:43:52 as a "sentence", if you will, that we cannot change what we value or how we behave.

00:46:46 In a funny way I don't find it depressing and I'll tell you why. I think that what we're

00:48:43 by the stampede around us.