Monthly Archives: November 2008

Chomsky on Brand Obama

By Keyvan | Published: 27 November 2008
The goal of advertising is to create uninformed consumers who will make irrational choices. Those of you who suffered through an economics course know that markets are supposed to be based on informed consumers making rational choices. But industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year to undermine markets … to get uninformed consumers [...]
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Erich Fromm Interview

By Keyvan | Published: 22 November 2008
Get the Flash Player to see this video. var s1 = new SWFObject('/wp-content/plugins/flvplayer.swf','single','540','400','7'); s1.addParam('allowfullscreen','true'); s1.addVariable('file','http://files.k1m.org/erich_fromm.flv'); s1.addVariable('id','fromm_erich'); s1.addVariable('image','/wp-content/images/2008-fromm-erich.jpg'); s1.addVariable('displayheight','380'); s1.addVariable('backcolor','0x000000'); s1.addVariable('frontcolor','0xCCCCCC'); s1.addVariable('lightcolor','0xE3E1D1'); s1.addVariable('width','540'); s1.addVariable('height','400'); //s1.addVariable('captions','captionate'); s1.addVariable('autostart','false'); s1.addVariable('largecontrols','false'); s1.addVariable('usefullscreen','true'); s1.addVariable('overstretch','true'); s1.addVariable("usecaptions","false"); s1.write('player'); Erich Fromm interviewed by Mike Wallace in 1958. You can also read the transcript and watch the video with subtitles.
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