This blog post is simply a clip from a 2001 documentary by British BBC filmmaker Adam Curtis titled "Century of the Self" and available online in its entirety here: http://centuryself.blogspot.com/ Curtis' original documentary was quite interesting and well done, in my opinion, although I thought some of the details of his treatment of Anna Freud were questionable. He did a later documentary titled "The Power of Nightmares" that is also interesting, although I had more problems with it overall. (I think it misstates somewhat the nature of the threat posed by terrorist groups like Al Qaeda.) More recently, he has done a documentary titled "The Trap" that I haven't yet viewed in its entirety but which I've found disappointing. "The Trap" seems to regard game theory, as developed by mathematicians like Von Neumann and John Nash, as a source of great evil in the modern world, and there are some significant factual flaws in his description of Nash's mental illness (which Nash developed AFTER his pioneering work on what has become known as the "Nash equilibrium"). In this particular clip, however -- and in the rest of "The Century of the Self" -- Curtis's recounting of the career of Edward Bernays and his role in promoting propaganda in modern society is very well done.