[D66] Docu: Human Resources

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https://vimeo.com/102686111


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Ratings: 8.60/10 from 95 users.

It's a documentary about Social Control, examining the history, the 
philosophy and ultimately the pathology of elite power.

Overall, Human Resources is rough around the edges but still overloaded 
with gems. Set aside some time to digest this - and take notes.

Scott Noble does an admirable job of fitting ten hours of material into 
two. He gives the space to all the people he interviews... there's a 
metric ton of ideas here and he lets almost all of them unfold and 
breathe at their own pace.

The footage itself is very low-fi and some of the interviews feel like 
they drag on for too long, or wander in circles. Impressively, those 
moments are few and far between.

Noble can't cover everything, but the scope of this movie alone makes it 
the most ambitious entry in this strange genre so far, more complete 
than The Century of the Self and less hysterical than the Zeitgeist 
franchise.


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