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Human Resources
March 30th, 2011
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Human Resources – Social Engineering in the 20th Century explores the rise of mechanistic philosphy and the exploitation of human beings under modern hierarhical systems. Topics covered include behaviorism, scientific management, work-place democracy, schooling, frustration-aggression hypothesis and human experimentation.

The film includes original interviews with: “Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Rebecca Lemov (“World as Laboratory”), Christopher Simpson (“The Science of Coercion”), George Ritzer (“The McDonaldization of Society”), Morris Berman (“The Reenchantment of the World”), John Taylor Gatto (“Dumbing us Down”), Alfie Kohn (“What does it mean to be well educated?”) and others.

 

Human Resources, 9.5 out of 10 based on 82 ratings

51 Comments

  1. April 1, 2011 at 9:33 am | Dk_beauty

    Excellent doc; very inciteful. Best one I have viewed on this site. Thanks for posting it.

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    • April 1, 2011 at 9:39 am | Danny

      My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it!

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    • February 10, 2012 at 10:48 pm | Get_educated

      insightful

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  2. April 2, 2011 at 10:27 am | Franklin

    One of the best documentaries I have ever seen, I wish more people watch it, i fully recommend it.

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  3. April 3, 2011 at 2:14 am | alfredo

    A mind opener doc , , thanks for posting

    another one interesting is = The century of the self

    El mismo con subtitulos en castellano = El siglo del individualismo

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    • June 12, 2011 at 1:37 am | mrg

      I work as a teacher and I found the segment on schooling very interesting given that the notions of dictated and measured curriculum content are so over-simplified and not worthy of what we are or capable of being.  And listening to intelligent people talking about education in terms that teachers rarely consider was wonderfully exciting.
      English, Mathematics and Science bring little to the soul of the child and are measured purely to divide them.  I have witnessed how they give rise to either hubris or frustration or even pointless rebellion.

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  4. April 5, 2011 at 1:13 am | JustMe

    Greate doc; lost of radically diferent views of an array of common topics, such as education and school, work and labor organization, the communist revolution, a competition base society, violence, etc.
    It’s a must see.
    Thanks Danny, for finding it!

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  5. April 5, 2011 at 1:13 am | JustMe

    Greate doc; lost of radically diferent views of an array of common topics, such as education and school, work and labor organization, the communist revolution, a competition base society, violence, etc.
    It’s a must see.
    Thanks Danny, for finding it!

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  6. April 5, 2011 at 1:13 am | JustMe

    Greate doc; lost of radically diferent views of an array of common topics, such as education and school, work and labor organization, the communist revolution, a competition base society, violence, etc.
    It’s a must see.
    Thanks Danny, for finding it!

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  7. April 5, 2011 at 1:13 am | JustMe

    Greate doc; lost of radically diferent views of an array of common topics, such as education and school, work and labor organization, the communist revolution, a competition base society, violence, etc.
    It’s a must see.
    Thanks Danny, for finding it!

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  8. April 5, 2011 at 4:08 am | O'Ross

    Eugenics was developed in Nazi Germany not in the U. S.

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    • April 8, 2011 at 5:07 pm | Nemernicool

      Check your facts,it came from the US and the UK

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    • April 26, 2011 at 6:44 pm | Anonymous

      Watch the documentary, check the dates & do some research. It is usually best not to comment on something unless you know what you are talking about.

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    • April 26, 2011 at 6:44 pm | Anonymous

      Watch the documentary, check the dates & do some research. It is usually best not to comment on something unless you know what you are talking about.

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  9. April 8, 2011 at 12:47 am | AnarchoRationalist

    Well, there you have it. When confronted with an institutional evil, and it can only humanely be considered evil, on the scale of this, the rending of the human mind itself, what can be said?

    Moreover, what can you do? For me, the answer has been: to stop believing. Governments, as they have been implemented and are implemented today, simply cannot conscientiously be allowed to continue. And yet they will continue, until we learn to say no. There are no more rationalizations to be made, no more excuses. And when you have realized this, then you are free.

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  10. April 10, 2011 at 2:52 am | High

    This documentary puts things in very clear focus!

    One of the best and insightful documentaries I’ve ever seen.

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  11. April 26, 2011 at 7:18 pm | Anonymous

    Social engineering effect almost every part of your life, your not as free as you thought you were.

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  12. April 30, 2011 at 6:00 pm | Backlinks

    This is great nice to hear some peoples thoughts on the subject.

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  13. May 15, 2011 at 8:50 pm | Lunarmom

     Excellent documentary although quite disturbing.  Very well put together and sensible.  My condolences for your aunt but she would be very proud.

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  14. May 17, 2011 at 8:31 am | Mark Stouffer

    This video is a joke, and I believe you commentors are ill informed. This video does you no service. Winston Churchill,[15] Margaret Sanger,[16][17] Marie Stopes, H. G. Wells, Theodore Roosevelt, George Bernard Shaw, John Maynard Keynes, John Harvey Kellogg, Linus Pauling[18] and Sidney Webb supported eugenics. Notice Margaret Sanger, founder of the currently under pressure Planned Parenthood organization.
    This ignores all the improvements we have had to the liberalisation of the workplace we have had since the Perot Revolution, since deregulation. We had “blue laws” and larger
    Capitalism leads to diversity. If you want to know who needs cookie cutter automatons, look for the institution that can only think in such terms: the central authority.
    Do you think they will have a diversity committee?

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    • May 22, 2011 at 9:38 am | randevouz

      victim of irrarationality of rationality 

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      • May 23, 2011 at 2:55 am | Mark Stouffer

        Is that a short-hand endorsement of whim-worship? 

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      • May 23, 2011 at 2:55 am | Mark Stouffer

        Is that a short-hand endorsement of whim-worship? 

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        • November 29, 2011 at 1:00 am | /ff

          Idiot

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          • November 29, 2011 at 8:39 am | Mark Stouffer

            Witty.

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    • May 23, 2011 at 6:17 am | thekingbeyondthegate

      You seem very certain. That in itself is a display of flawed logic since from present evidence three qualities define a person: DNA, Upbringing and Willpower. To say that DNA alone can define someone is ridiculous, it may give some people a greater disposition to something but that can mean nothing or everything. Besides genetic mutation takes place in each generation. Scientifically it is important to keep a varied gene pool.

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      • May 23, 2011 at 6:45 am | Mark Stouffer

        “To say that DNA alone can define someone is ridiculous”. 

        Then I will not say it.

        Or is that what you are saying? Or is your DNA making you say that? 

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    • July 28, 2011 at 9:21 am | Smack

      Capitalism does not lead to diversity.  It leads to a monoculture, the exact opposite of diversity.  You also seem to believe deregulation improved the workplace.   You probably fancy yourself a libertarian, lol, Perot Revolution, state-corporations.  I’d trade your bullshit cut and paste from wiki for clean water, safe food, protections from the intrinsic callousness of capitalism.  Stagnant wages, ever increasing top end salaries, concentration of wealth into a few dishonest private pockets, not your so-called state-corporations.  That’s not the government doing that, it’s the invisible hand. Your blind belief in capitalism is the cookie cutter institution, it ends at the barrel of a gun. You do realize not everyone was born into the middle class?  “Capitalism leads to diversity” hahahaha hilarious. Put your beer down and put some real thought into the true nature and effects of capitalism or learn to enjoy eating money because that’s all you have.  Money can not buy love, they’re whores.

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      • November 29, 2011 at 8:45 am | Mark Stouffer

        “concentration of wealth into a few dishonest private pockets…” The only indication of this is that Karl Marx said it. Nothing in the real world indicates a concentration of wealth without the government forcing it. Capitalism has made more millionaires than any politburo or duma could ever have done. There is a far larger number of rich people today than there ever was in the tens of thousands of years before capitalism. Wake up.

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        • December 19, 2011 at 7:06 am | Esquivel

          Can you spot where you just contradicted yourself?  You tell us.  We already see it.  We just want to know if you can also.

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          • December 19, 2011 at 4:35 pm | Mark Stouffer

            Are there some people with you in the room there?

            I can guess where you might mistake there to be a contradiction. Is that what you are asking me to do? You want me to guess what kind of wrong assumption your are making?

            I will guess that you are a pie-slicer. You think that the wealth of the world is a fixed pie. 

            (You asked me to guess, so I am picking the most popular fallacy. If this is wrong you might want to try actually saying what you believe. It’s good practice for believing it.)

            You think, mistakenly, that the larger number of millionaires indicates a larger concentration of wealth. You believe that the millions of new millionaires must have gathered their new wealth from all us peasants. And you just kind of don’t notice, or choose not to notice, that all us peasants have cell phones, flat screens, ready access to inexpensive clothing and food, much better cars then we had 30 years ago, computers, and vast online services available for free, including the answers to any questions we can formulate.

            The underlying problem (and remember I am only guessing because you asked that I do so) is that you can only gauge your own wealth in comparison to others. You are simply mentally incapable of measuring your wealth, your happiness, and your achievement by any objective standard. 

            You are like the person on the freeway who must always race the person next to them or trying to pass them, but slows to a crawl on the open road. He never realizes, never chooses to realize that the people passing him came from a different starting line and are heading for a different finish line. 

            So you never achieve the understanding that all those masses of new millionaires could not possibly have been created by gathering the scraps of the peasants of the past. Capitalism and property have created more wealth than the plundering kings of old could ever have dreamed of.

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  15. May 17, 2011 at 8:34 am | Mark Stouffer

     At least read the wikipedia page:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics

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  16. May 22, 2011 at 9:41 am | randevouz

     simply…….best ;an alternate perpective on human urge to know and control  unknown and unseen…POWER..POWER

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  17. May 23, 2011 at 6:05 am | thekingbeyondthegate

    I despise when someone who is obviously intelligent attributes an idea to Christanity that was stolen from older civilisations and thinkers. In studying Ancient Greek, Eygptian and Chinese thoughts literally every idea and theme in Christanity (especially Greek, Palestine was invaded by the Greeks shortly before it was the Romans) and Judaism (in this case especially Eygptian, patently because of their massive exposure) can be found. 

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  18. May 23, 2011 at 6:05 am | thekingbeyondthegate

    I despise when someone who is obviously intelligent attributes an idea to Christanity that was stolen from older civilisations and thinkers. In studying Ancient Greek, Eygptian and Chinese thoughts literally every idea and theme in Christanity (especially Greek, Palestine was invaded by the Greeks shortly before it was the Romans) and Judaism (in this case especially Eygptian, patently because of their massive exposure) can be found. 

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  19. June 5, 2011 at 12:14 am | Iggy Igglesworth

    Beautiful. Brilliant. Well Put together and everything I have known for years and tell many (but they are so conditioned by the national narrative they actually think the Nazi’s are the only evil ever apparently and the United States is Good and would never commit such criminal acts.) ;0)

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  20. June 14, 2011 at 12:55 am | TheEducatedFool

    10/10 documentary.
    I really like how this documentary gives you a broad introduction before it centers on the CIA experiments.
    I just wish documentaries provides references and sources, i would like to verify its statements for my self.

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  21. July 26, 2011 at 7:14 am | Arloubim

    plain facts here, no reptile masonic loonies in this one

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  22. August 10, 2011 at 5:47 am | Towels

    It was very very informative and awesome.

    But then it totally misrepresented Hallucinogens as something dangerous and horrible.

    LSD is a tool to expand your mind, not control it

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  23. September 16, 2011 at 12:07 am | Anonymous

    Why is that guy speaking in slow motion. It’s infuriating.

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  24. September 16, 2011 at 12:07 am | Anonymous

    Why is that guy speaking in slow motion. It’s infuriating.

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  25. September 16, 2011 at 12:07 am | Anonymous

    Why is that guy speaking in slow motion. It’s infuriating.

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  26. November 24, 2011 at 7:37 am | Sense

    It is my belief that the inbreeding of the so called elite families, as seen in the british royal family, has caused the people in charge of our societies to be mentally ill. They have lost all their connection to humanity, nature and the earth, this is seen in their horribly perverted view of the world, and how it should be run. This mental illness is evident in the failure of our societies, with their spectacularly bad outcomes, and obvious fear based origins, these people are coming from a place of confusion, illness and fear, and so infect everything with this.
         Lets get them some help, so we can all move forward as evolution intended.
         
      Much Love! 

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    • December 19, 2011 at 7:03 am | Esquivel

      Right on – but what “help” can you give sociopaths?  They may be sick, but they have enough resources to impose their wills on the rest of us, and because we have bought into the system they set up, we do their bidding against each other.  I am not sure if “help” is as appropriate as simply turning our backs on them and finding ways we can move on without them as our overlords.  yeah, the giant devil is in the details.

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  27. December 2, 2011 at 6:42 am | Sinops

    The only thing missing here are the sources from wich such facts, quotes and imagery where extracted from. Otherwise this is a much interesting documentary that makes a valid connection between the advancements in social sciences, industry and the degenaration of certain aspects of society following throug, XIX, XX and early XIX centuries.

    P.S: throw away the box and think freely.

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  28. January 27, 2012 at 8:01 am | ah what is wrong ppl

    great doc, yet its sad how successful these experiments are.

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  29. January 27, 2012 at 8:01 am | ah what is wrong ppl

    great doc, yet its sad how successful these experiments are.

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  30. February 21, 2012 at 5:25 am | Josaline_is

    Wow.  Thank you.

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  31. May 1, 2012 at 9:03 am | Troy Dimattia

    If you need to buy traffic, I’ve always wondered if fiverr could work for something like that. Then again, there’s always that problem of it not being top quality.

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  32. May 14, 2012 at 4:32 am | john

    New Link please

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