Society And Culture Shorts

Themed notes built from YouTube Shorts on society and culture.

In this section

Control And Persuasion
- Orwell Versus Huxley
  Four shorts compare Orwell's fear of control through pain with Huxley's fear of control through pleasure and distraction.
- Manufactured Desire and Planned Obsolescence
  Three shorts on how desire and product life can be engineered, from Edward Bernays and the light bulb cartel to scanned books and vanishing originals.
History And Curiosities
- Puzzles From the Past and Philosophies of Repair
  Three shorts on an unreadable manuscript, an ancient Greek device and the Japanese art of kintsugi, about what is lost, kept and made valuable.