School children around the country are being subjected a 20-minute propaganda video called The Story of Stuff. It features Annie Leonard (wife of Seinfeld co-writer) explaining how natural resources are made into products that are sold to consumers and then disposed of when no longer useful.
Of course, Annie does not present the usual dry economics of the production process. Instead, she uses Marxist/Leninist ideology to explain how American consumerism leads to destruction of the planet and exploitation of the Third World workers and resources. Did you know that government is the tool used by corporations to control the population?
She targets school children because they represent the masses that have a false consciousness–they like their stuff–and her video is a consciousness raising exercise that will lead the masses to revolt against the system.
See an excellent four-part YouTube rebuttal here.
