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February 27, 2025 58 mins

Completing our foray into advertising, mostly using Antony’s talk on Julian Charles’s excellent podcast ‘The Mind Renewed’ back in 2015, we dive deeper into Edward Bernays’s work and then segue into the darker underbelly of the craft, including the engineering of a military coup and the truly egregious and unethical snaring of innocent hearts and minds involved in advertising to children. On a lighter note we mention a few points made in Neil Sanders’s very entertaining presentation called ‘The Art of Creating Reality’ (see show notes).

From there we talk about an excellent short video called ‘Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed’ (see show notes again) and how we have been trapped into a certain way of life. There are a few words from Antony at the end of the talk on this subject, and Antony and Julian offer some advice for combatting the controlling force of advertising.

 

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Link to Julian’s website/podcast and our original talk in full

https://www.themindrenewed.com

https://www.themindrenewed.com/episodes/2014-15/717-ep020

 

episode links

Edward Bernays: A Brief History

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdQ6HIzaSm4

 

‘Company Store’ by Dissident Prophet (with lyrics)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcx3T_UoHsU

 

Consuming Kids: The Commercialisation of Childhood (2008 doc)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMaRsR7orTk

 

How Advertising Rewires Kids’ Brains

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGN1ZEABk_Y

 

Neil Sanders - The Art of Creating Reality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXIRBU0LVWI

 

Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufeavz7d0GU

 

A Parent’s Guide to Resisting Television Advertising

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdQYMG0JnWw

 

Rory Sutherland’s superb TED talks ‘Perspective Is Everything’ and ‘Life Lessons of an Ad Man’

https://www.ted.com/talks/rory_sutherland_perspective_is_everything

https://www.ted.com/talks/rory_sutherland_life_lessons_from_an_ad_man

 

Stephen Fry can’t stop shopping! (go to 44.55)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECv-24Ruu-o

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