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QuestionAre brands more powerful than governments? Barcelona Forum 2004Answeroriginal language english
Hans-Peter Dürr: Yes. If we identify brands with economic power, we could really say that today’s economic power is more powerful than governments.
Brands lead to simplification of the problem. We are overflowed with information and people depend on this simplification. They can be controlled by introducing to them something what they already know. That’s flattening and it leads to great difficulties.
The questions that the society and the governments pose are too abstract. They have nothing to do with everyday life and that’s why are not comprehensible to the people who are used to this simplification.
We must once again start to point out the issues in a more complicated form, in order they start thinking themselves and making their own decisions in their favour. And that is being hindered. To a certain extent, economic power is an enslavement of the people by simply making them ignorant.
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