The document discusses various topics related to popular culture and consumerism. It begins by examining how modern society takes advantage of people's desires through conditioning and making them like their "inescapable social destiny." The document then discusses the concept of isolation and individual choice from quotes by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It also references propaganda from North Korea and compares the World State in Brave New World to contemporary states. In concluding, the document examines how trapped people can feel in the "American Dream" and consumer culture.

1. Consumer
&Popular
culture
Rachel Kim, Christina Koo, William Lee, & Steven Shin—10F

2. What is the role of
artin culture?
(literature, architecture, film, music, theater, etc.)

3. art?
ex. (literature, architecture, film, music, theater, etc.)

4. “ Nothing to do...the hotel too...old-
fashioned—no television...no scent organ,
only the most putrid synthetic music...” (Huxley, 87)

5. “The facial erogenous zones of the six thousand
spectators in the Alhambra tingled with almost
intolerable galvanic pleasure” (Huxley, 168)

6. The Changes: Old to New

7. Tokyo
Paris

8. Do you know...?
real world art = world state art
How about...?

9. This is us.

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11. Does mass media reduce
the ability of individuals to
think for themselves?

12. What is mass media?

13. What is mass media?

14. What is mass media?

15. What is mass media?

16. What is mass media?

17. What is mass media?

18. What is mass media?

19. What is mass media?

20. World State’s Mass Media
“Every one works for every one else. We can’t do without any one.
Even Epsilons are useful. We couldn’t do without Epsilons. Every one
works for every one else. We can’t do without any one. . .” (Huxley
80).

21. World State’s Mass Media
“Every one works for every one else. We can’t do without any one.
Even Epsilons are useful. We couldn’t do without Epsilons. Every one
works for every one else. We can’t do without any one. . .” (Huxley
80).

22. World State
"The greater a man's
talents, the greater his
power to lead astray. Mr.
Foster, and you will see
that no offense is so
heinous as unorthodoxy of
behavior. Murder kills only
the individual-and, after
what is an
all,
individual?”(Huxl
ey 82)

23. How does mass media affect
how we think?

24. How does mass media affect
how we think?

25. How does mass media affect
how we think?

26. How does mass media affect
how we think?

27. How does mass media affect
how we think?

28. How does mass media affect
how we think?

29. How does mass media affect
how we think?

30. “The American motion picture
is the greatest unconscious
carrier of propaganda in the
world today. Because pictures
exaggerate broad popular
tendencies, rather than
stimulate new ideas and
opinions.”
– Edward Bernays, Propaganda

31. “The American motion picture
is the greatest unconscious
carrier of propaganda in the
world today. Because pictures
exaggerate broad popular
tendencies, rather than
stimulate new ideas and
opinions.”
– Edward Bernays, Propaganda

32. “The American motion picture
is the greatest unconscious
carrier of propaganda in the
world today. Because pictures
exaggerate broad popular
tendencies, rather than
stimulate new ideas and
opinions.”
– Edward Bernays, Propaganda

33. “The American motion picture
is the greatest unconscious
carrier of propaganda in the
world today. Because pictures
exaggerate broad popular
tendencies, rather than
stimulate new ideas and
opinions.”
– Edward Bernays, Propaganda

35. How much does the
mass media
influence you?

36. Citations
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37. What leisure activities do
people engage in?
Christina Koo

38. Leisure and fun?

39. “...Lenina and Henry were yet dancing in
another world-the warm, the richly coloured, the
soma-holiday
infinitely friendly world of .
How kind, how good-looking, how delightfully
amusing everyone was!”(Huxley 66)

41. Sure we do somethings for ourselves
sometimes...

42. But is this all for
ourselves?
... “complete disappearance of summer jobs,”
especially among upper-income applicants who
opted for “decorative” internships at
places like investment banks, where they could
work with friends of their parents. -NYtimes

43. Conclusion.
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44. Citation
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Pill Advised
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45. Consumer Culture
Steven Shin - F Block

46. How does modern society
take advantage of
people’s desires?

47. “For the New Mexican
Reservation?” he said, and his
tone, the face he lifted to Bernard,
expressed a kind of agitated
astonishment (Huxley 95).

48. “All conditioning aims at that:
making people like their
inescapable social
destiny”(Huxley 16).

49. “The isolation of every human soul and
the necessity of self- dependence must
give each individual the right to choose
his own surroundings.”(Elizabeth C)

50. “If it results in a war of aggression,
we will wreck the Americans
first”(North Korean government)

51. World State = Contemporary State

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