Thanks for linking this video: I recommend everyone watch this! I personally already know all of Adam Curtis' documentaries; my personal favorite is "The Century of the Self":
The point of lies and propaganda is not to convince you of the truth of those lies, it is to attack your critical sensibilities, it's an attack on truth itself, to get you to the point where you no longer know what's true or necessarily care about truth. (paraphrasing Garry Kasparov)
Nice. I'll check it out.
To examine yourself is to examine the greater society you find yourself enmeshed in, and we can't have any of that.
There was no "American Consumer", there was only the "American Worker".