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Eugenics &Mass consumerism .
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ndzw0/b00ndzrd/Glamours_Golden_Age_The_Luxe_Experience/
BBC i player documentary about the 1920's 30's art deco movement . The start of Hollywood cult of celebrity and the consumer society . Worth watching for background the implementation of the agenda. Starting at 51, minutes in the eugenics issue is discussed .Documentary film shows how mild feeble minded types if carefully trained can perform simple routine tasks
but it would of been better by far if they had never been born!:eek:
See main headline page today .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/scotland/6365363/Social-services-to-take-baby-from-teenager-deemed-too-stupid-to-marry.html
clozaril
22-10-2009, 12:16 AM
i caught the last 10 mins of this when it was on tv. interesting.
I started 2 watch it for the architecture , but it has some really interesting social points to make . Especially the eugenics issue :D
clozaril
22-10-2009, 07:55 PM
i saw the part about eugenics and then how it influenced design and words such as streamlining became part of everyday language.
i watched a doc last night about the 30's tale of two britains (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nph5d) and it showed the rise of consumerism and credit (higher purchase) it also mentioned how people moved away from the community and how community spirit had been erdoed saying perhaps the radio played a part but also a snobbery and aspiration to keep up with the jones'.
so as well as the mention of eugenics in the previous documentary, social engineering was also visible in this one.
btw i love modernism as well :)
oops i re-read your first post and i'm kinda echoing what you said
:o
Interesting how they are putting these type documentarys out now , a bit like remaking the survivors series a while back based on most of mankind dying from flue virus ! :rolleyes:
Theres something about the 1930's that resonates with me , i think it was a significant period a change over time . Have read a few sci -fi type novels etc were that time period figures . In one of richards bachs book he meets some people who love flying they crossed into another dimension just b4 world war 2 as they decided that wasnt the life they wanted to live . They continued their lives i nthe 30's style exploring the wonders of flight in peace .I read that there was a move to convert to a 13 month lunar based calendar back in the 30's but the vatican opposed it and then war broke out to further complicate matters . :D
clozaril
22-10-2009, 08:30 PM
Interesting how they are putting these type documentarys out now , a bit like remaking the survivors series a while back based on most of mankind dying from flue virus ! :rolleyes:
Theres something about the 1930's that resonates with me , i think it was a significant period a change over time . Have read a few sci -fi type novels etc were that time period figures . In one of richards bachs book he meets some people who love flying they crossed into another dimension just b4 world war 2 as they decided that wasnt the life they wanted to live . They continued their lives i nthe 30's style exploring the wonders of flight in peace .I read that there was a move to convert to a 13 month lunar based calendar back in the 30's but the vatican opposed it and then war broke out to further complicate matters . :D
really ?
yeah i like the 30's too modernism futurism and abstract art it seemed a really pure and forward thinking period that saw and believed in utopia. that technology could be used to serve mankind and liberate us from work.
reading that back it seems straight out of the eugenicists handbook :eek:
really ?
yeah i like the 30's too modernism futurism and abstract art it seemed a really pure and forward thinking period that saw and believed in utopia. that technology could be used to serve mankind and liberate us from work.
reading that back it seems straight out of the eugenicists handbook :eek:
:eek:LOL despite whatever aenda there was or is going on some people believe in improving our lot for the better .Just watched tale of two britains on bbc i player , interesting doc a lot of George orwell in there . Also J.B Priestly , who wrote a series of plays based on time not so much travel but time related , i saw one bbc play starring anthony valentine i think it was .Must go to the library and get them out to read .Was the 1930's a type of 2012 i wonder with the possability of a better future usurped by the war years onwards ? As for the change in calendar system it was inan article about the mayan calendar ill try and find it if i can , i have so many sites bookmarked its hard to keep track . :D