The shock doctrine

Naomi Klein
Born in 1970;
Montreal, Canada;
author and social activist;
criticism of corporate power and of corporate capitalism;
Works: No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

4 year of research. Baghdad. Sri Lanka.
Foreign investors, international leaders use panic.
Tourism.
the truth about "free market" democracy
New World Order
Neoliberalism
2009, documentary by Michael Winterbottom

Different types of Shock
Electroshock Therapy
Natural Disaster Aftermath Shock
Argentina and Chile1970s
China 1989 Tiananmen massacre
Russia 1993 Oligarchy
Falklands War 1982
Belgrade, Yugoslavia 1999 NATO attack
COLLECTIVE SHOCK — ECONOMIC SHOCK
Crisis is useful for politicians:
I. «Don't worry, I'm in charge»;
II. Fog of a shock.
1) Privatization;
2) government deregulation;
3) deep cuts to social spendings.
Extremely unpopular.
After 911 the U.S. stops to ask the permission for these changes.

New Orleans. Katrina, 2005
Large public housing projects that sustained minimum damage are closed up — radical privatization.
Public hospitals are shot down, school system is transformed.
=> People are gone. And they can't fight back.
Disaster Capitalism

Capitalism and Freedom (1962)
Labs:
1980s South America: «privitized or die»
New Orleans: destroy old and build new
Univesity of Chicago — arm of American foreign policy, not just Neoliberalism.
A book by Milton Friedman
Nobel prize... Influence

«Chicago Boys»
Back in S.America ministers, head of banks
1973, General Augusto Pinochet's advisors...
rapid-fire economic transformation, «shock treatment»
●mass-privatizations;
●government deregulation;
●unrestricted free market;
●access for foreign corporations;
●deep cuts in social spending with repressive laws
+harsh crackdowns and torture
Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Russia, the Falklands, Poland, South Africa, Sri Lanka, New Orleans, Israel.
Coup - Economy - Torture.

9/11
Klein:
"Suddenly we found ourselves living in a kind of Year Zero. Everything we knew of the world before dismissed as 'pre-9/11' thinking."
"blank slate, a clean sheet of paper''
"the original disaster (terror attack, war, hurricane, market meltdown) puts the entire population into a state of collective shock"

Electroconvulsive therapy

CIA
"two-stage psychological torture method":
sensory deprivation -> sensory overload.
Dr. Ewen Cameron:
"unmake and erase faulty minds, then rebuild (on a blank slate) new personalities"
- Hebb's experiments at McGill
was a failure but a lesson for CIA
U.S. hypocrisy
about human rights

Human guinea pigs

Friedman's Developmentalism
1950s «Third World Nationalism»
leftists:
workers - bosses citizens- dictatorship countries - colonialism VS Friedman:
«individual freedom»,
no federal taxes for corporations
South America:
"pouring public money into infrastructure projects,
providing local businesses generous subsidies,
and keeping out foreign imports with....high tariffs."

'Doctor Will Heal You' Cases
1953, the U.S. Declaired a war against developmentalism.
CIA's first ever coup against Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran; Guatemala - both democratically elected.
1973, 1973 Chilean coup d'état.
Salvador Allende VS Augusto Pinochet

NONE of the revolutions in Russia are considered good.
Not the Red Revolution. Not the collapse of the USSR.
Every revolution took away lives of so many people.
Every revolution was a disaster.
Every revolution was a shock.
Every revolution came from the outside.
Every revolution was sponsored by the first world.
Like most of the «REVOLUTIONS» around the world.
Who benefit? Are they even humans?
Solution: Shock Resistance.

«We've been sold a fairy tale»
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHR13lp3-w0
Jonas and Alfonso Cuaron:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSF0e6oO_tw