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UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Add essay here about capitalism relying on, and causing, dis-ease and unhappiness--moreover, it parcels everything; show both sides, production and consumption.  If happiness and well-being mean to be whole and part of, capitalism is the worst of all possible social orders.  

American Winter: A documentary about a country in search of a promise


Michael's power point on advertising (in Hon folder)
Happiness Syllogism

Corporate profits are a function of production
  Production is a function of demand
  Demand is a function of advertising
  Successful advertising is function of unhappiness

Corporate profits are a function of unhappiness
©EJW 


Happiness Syllogism 

Increasing corporate profits are a function of increasing production
  Increasing production is a function of increasing demand
  Increasing demand is a function of effective advertising
  Effective advertising is function of instilling unhappiness

Increasing corporate profits are a function of instilling unhappiness
©EJW 

The Ad and the Ego. 1 of 4

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Part II; Part III; Part IV

Animation by Squid and Beard: http://www.squidandbeard.com

View the sources for the research athttp://www.newdream.org/resources/high-price-of-materialism-further-reading  

The High Price of Materialism


Produced by the Center for a New American Dream 

Psychologist Tim Kasser discusses how America's culture of consumerism undermines our well-being. When people buy into the ever-present marketing messages that "the good life" is "the goods life," they not only use up Earth's limited resources, but they are less happy and less inclined toward helping others. The animation both lays out the problems of excess materialism and points toward solutions that promise a healthier, more just, and more sustainable life.







Learn more at http://www.newdream.org 

                                        I’m the Slime; Frank Zappa



I am gross and perverted
  I’m obsessed ‘n deranged
  I have existed for years
  But very little has changed
  I am the tool of the Government
  And industry too
  For I am destined to rule
  And regulate you

I may be vile and pernicious
  But you can’t look away
  I make you think I’m delicious
  With the stuff that I say
  I am the best you can get
  Have you guessed me yet?
  I am the slime oozin out
  From your TV set


You will obey me while I lead you
  And eat the garbage I feed you
  Until the day that we don’t need you
  Don’t go for help…no one will heed you
  Your mind is controlled
  It has been stuffed into my mold
  And you will do as you are told
  Until the rights for you are sold

That’s right, folks…
  Don’t touch that dial!

Well, I am the slime from your video
  Oozin along on your livin’ room floor

I am the slime from you video
  Can’t stop the slime, people, lookit me go
               Frank Zappa, Overnight Sensation, The Mothers of Invention.  Munchkin Music, ASCAP 1973