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Related: About this forumA documentary adaptation of Naomi Klein's 2007 book, The Shock Doctrine.
Based on breakthrough historical research and four years of on-the-ground reporting in disaster zones, The Shock Doctrine vividly shows how disaster capitalism -- the rapid-fire corporate re-engineering of societies still reeling from shock -- did not begin with September 11, 2001.
The films traces its origins back fifty years, to the University of Chicago under Milton Friedman, which produced many of the leading neo-conservative and neo-liberal thinkers whose influence is still profound in Washington today.
Kath1
(4,309 posts)Love Naomi Klein. The book was excellent and should be required reading.
Congratulations on post number 1,500!
littlemissmartypants
(22,819 posts)gateley
(62,683 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,819 posts)Thank you for helping kick the post!
2naSalit
(86,802 posts)And thank you, I've been waiting for this. When I read the book I was kind of in a daze for about a week. I recommended it to everyone I could. I'll be watching that in the next day or so when I have more time.
Thank you for posting this.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)I'll check out the vid when I have about a week to spare afterward
littlemissmartypants
(22,819 posts)it is a shock without a doubt. Thank you for helping kick this post!
duhneece
(4,118 posts)I kept having to take breaks, spend some time taking in what all she was revealing. I feel like I've come out of my 'Shock Doctrine' depression with the book by Steven Pinker "Better Angels of Our Nature, Why Violence Has Declined"
Sometimes we need to be reminded that, as activists, we are making things better.
NICO9000
(970 posts)Probably took me six or eight months to get through a couple years ago. It is one of best books I've ever read, but God was it depressing.
I watched this movie a while back on cable and it is a major bummer too, but very important viewing.
littlemissmartypants
(22,819 posts)It has been an eye opener for me. Thank you for helping kick the post and for your endorsement ...
very important viewing.
littlemissmartypants
(22,819 posts)She is amazing to me.
2naSalit
(86,802 posts)Bill Moyers about two weeks ago..? (She just had a boy recently!) She and Bill have a really good conversation about vulture capitalism and the ravages of hurricane Sandy.
http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-hurricanes-capitalism-democracy/
And then after that conversation there's a good conversation with Trevor Potter of Stephen Colbert's SuperPac endeavor fame on the same program. Both very informative. Bill Moyers was Pres. Johnson's press secretary and is one of the last holdouts of real journalists of our best-time-for-progressives past. He's retired twice and come back to continue his work because he is so passionate about the major decline in our social fabric due to dirtbag politics. He's awesome too and Naomi is like the next generation of his kind which is why this conversation should go down in the history books as momentous.
littlemissmartypants
(22,819 posts)there is something about his voice I find comforting. Thanks for the addition to the post.
2naSalit
(86,802 posts)well known enough. His reporting is always spot on.
Thanks for putting that Shock Doctrine flick link up!! Like I said above, I've been waiting for it to become available online. I'm up in the redneck dominated mountains in the west and have limited access to many things, like a video store that might carry it.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)....and will come back to watch in entirety later... You have outsmarted yourself, littlemisssmartypants. Thanks for linking it here.
littlemissmartypants
(22,819 posts)ReRe!
dvhughes
(50 posts)Read the book a few years back and it really opened my eyes to the behind the scenes workings of greed and power.
I really enjoyed (for lack of a better term) watching the video and can't thank you enough for posting.
littlemissmartypants
(22,819 posts)it were required for students as part of their "Civics" and "American History" curriculum?
dvhughes
(50 posts)but extremely reasonable.
Unfortunately, most of the debate around what is taught in school usually leans towards acceptance of an intelligent designer.
So...
LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)Thanks for posting this!
littlemissmartypants
(22,819 posts)Thank you.
jhrobbins
(1,633 posts)littlemissmartypants
(22,819 posts)sorry... but it is just too relevant...and she is awesome!
littlemissmartypants
(22,819 posts)"The disaster itself provided the profit opportunity."
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)Austerity imposed as an answer to an artificially created economic 'crisis.'
littlemissmartypants
(22,819 posts)Carolina
(6,960 posts)Thank you for this. Great book, tragic history that damns the US to this day.
Nixon really was awful... and to think he looks good when compared with the crazies of the repuke party today.
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)rurallib
(62,451 posts)looks like it could be great.
PotatoChip
(3,186 posts)I read the book, and have been wanting to seeing the documentary for some time now. Just never got around to looking for it.
Thank you very much for this LMSP (btw- love the DU name!)
littlemissmartypants
(22,819 posts)to kick this post... I was just reading one of yours!