March 09, 2008

History’s Hidden Engine (must-see video)

Dandelion Salad

Socionomics Institute

59 min 51 sec - Mar 17, 2007
www.socionomics.com

History’s Hidden Engine is the result of more than three years of research and creativity by filmmaker David Moore. Moore traveled North America to capture the insights of 17 brilliant minds, then wove them into this film. In just 59 minutes and with the help of pop songs, news footage and cultural images that are familiar to everyone, this documentary shows how social mood drives trends in movies, music, fashion, finance, economics, politics, the media and war.

from video.google.com posted with vodpod

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h/t: Rich

2 Responses to “History’s Hidden Engine (must-see video)”

  1. The major up-tick in volume of fascinating posts must mean this applies to Dandelions as well—a third Fibonacci wave of news perhaps?

    So now that the herd mentality is entirely manipulated by mass media and the marketing machine, all we need in order to effect a boom in the Dow is to raise hemlines, run out some bubblegum pop, and cash out before it crashes in the inevitable 4th wave.

    If the cycle of popular opinion is an ever-expanding Archimedean spiral, at what point does the arc of speculation and consumption outstrip the limits of the finite sphere on which it grows, prompting complete collapse– the melting of the fragile fractal ecological snowflake, so to speak.

    Fascinating to tie socioeconomic trends to the numerical expression of natural patterns, of course we are nature, and therefore can’t avoid repeating its laws in our own behavior, to one degree or another.

    Where that may fall apart is the tendency of markets to foster a bi-polar disease of fear and greed, Also the theory assumes an ever-expanding supply to sustain its nautilus-like economic growth.

    One wonders if the addictive mindset of market speculation is a product of an unnatural concept of ‘economic development’, and instead of an ever-expanding ‘golden mean’ of prosperity, the ‘irrational exuberance’ and panic evidenced in the charts is an artifice based in abstract manipulations of valuation of equities generated by corporations and the dubious profit reports they apparently tend to generate.

    But ‘unnatural’ manipulations aside, I instinctively suspect that the price-trends of corporate stocks are founded in a system already based on an unsustainable petro-powered industrialization, rather than a solid mathematical pattern growing like the trunk of a tree. It’s an artificial and unstable cycle bound for ultimate collapse.

    Personally I rather observe this market ‘herd’ mentality only from afar, a ‘free radical’ divorced from the lemming-like ‘comforts’ of crowds.

  2. Great points, Natureboy. You think for yourself, that’s what we all should be doing. :)

  3. Alot of this is pure GARBAGE.
The truth is, we are MANIPULATED. I've heard all this before. It takes morality out of the capitalism equation. It ignores the use of advertising to create "sheep".

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