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The Men Who Made Us Spend - Episode 1
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The Men Who Made Us Spend review: the true story of how we became unremitting consumers | Television & radio | The Guardian
The Men Who Made Us Spend, or how we sold our soul to consumerism | Television & radio | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/jun/28/men-who-made-us-spend-jacques-peretti
Chances are, the biggest woe to betide you today is getting croissant crumbs in your frappé. Life’s all right, isn’t it? FaceTiming pals, clacking around Topshop, sticking another round on the card: it’s all pretty fun. This is the future we were promised – and I’m effed if I’m giving any of it up, you might say. Well brace yourself for ex-Guide man Jacques Peretti’s tour of consumerism in The Men Who Made Us Spend (BBC iPlayer). It’s a documentary that will quickly have your soul falling out your arse with horror. Stick that on Instagram.
Over three excellent episodes, TMWMUS – AKA A Short History Of Greed, AKA A Compendium Of Nasty Bastards – offers a bilious torrent of marketers and merchandisers, peppered with chunks of shady dealings and the well-digested question of why we’re compelled to spend. Along the way, ad man after ad man crawls from under rocks in the Hollywood Hills to gleefully tell us how they twisted our desires, invoked our primal fears and conned us all out of our money. For instance, you might wonder if the wrinkle anxiety Ronald Klatz and Bob Goldman of the Academy for Anti-Ageing Medicine Inc trade on is just a good old fashioned fear of dying. Ronald and Bob, who resemble some kind of bizarro underworld Penn & Teller, have conjured vast fortunes from their global fear-mongering without ever actually selling a product (just conferences). They merely promote the idea that youth = life and age = death. They’re so clever, they did this without any of the therapies they endorse being proven to work.
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The Men Who Made Us Spend review: the true story of how we became unremitting consumers
From iPhones to Ikea, why do we buy so much stuff that we don’t really need? Jacques Peretti tried to answer that tricky question, while a wordless documentary about Scottish life reminded us of simpler, perhaps happier, times
