Century of the Self - GREAT documentary about the invention of modern culture

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This is a four-part series and it's really quite long, but I've linked the first part here since the information in it is really quite invaluable. It explains how culture has become commodified, individualised and plasticized as a result of the efforts of 20th century psychologists and marketers looking to increase company profits. If you want to understand the current social malaise many people are feeling, you could do a lot worse than listening to the ideas put fourth by this doco.