"Information is shock resistance: arm yourself"

Alfonso Cuaron and Naomi Klein's film, illustrating the thesis of Klein's new book, The Shock Doctrine. It is necessary viewing.

Milton Friedman's doctrine of economic shock treatment, that Klein calls "the secret history of the free market," is to take advantage of disasters to push through an economic agenda. He said, "Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces change." The use of systematic violence to enhance or achieve a state of collective shock is not a aberration, but a requirement for the shock doctrine.
Via Professor Zero.