Psywar
2010 · 99 MIN · IMDB 7.9 · 236 VOTES · DIR. Scott Noble
Overview
This film explores the evolution of propaganda and public relations in the United States, with an emphasis on the elitist theory of democracy and the relationship between war, propaganda and class. Includes original interviews with a number of dissident scholars including Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Michael Parenti, Peter Phillips (Project Censored), John Stauber (PR Watch), Christopher Simpson (The Science of Coercion) and others. A deep, richly illustrated study of the nature and history of propaganda, featuring some of the world’s most insightful critics, Psywar exposes the propaganda system, providing crucial background and insight into the control of information and thought.
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00:00:06 This film is not for sale or distribution.
00:05:04 All we're getting on the front pages of the papers
00:08:53 where literally scores of former high-ranking military
00:13:02 with such efficiency and on such a massive scale?
00:18:35 Following the massacre at Ludlow, soldiers in Denver refused to participate
00:22:40 or when it can give them access to a different sort of social class
00:27:08 but of course, it isn't.
00:31:34 using information as an instrument of war.
00:36:06 ...took the incubators and left the children to die on the cold floor.
00:41:04 Decades later, George Orwell came to a similar conclusion, that:
00:45:14 and it seems to me that it is the appropriate form of social organization
00:49:21 of people in the running of their daily affairs, but it would see
00:53:18 in pushing civil rights and civil liberties forward
00:57:07 He pointed out that the principal architects of policy
01:00:54 In stark contrast to European forms of government
01:04:27 Something had to change.
01:08:28 The major story that advertising tells us about human happiness
01:12:11 how well they lasted, etc.
01:16:10 If you're simply false, you know it wouldn't work.
01:20:37 the day after Thanksgiving, where basically people were lining up
01:24:22 And now the question is: If those people are rich
01:28:49 there's no way you could compete with these stories that are told
01:32:22 The founders had a very clear idea
01:38:19 Metanoia-Films.org