“Shut Up and Strut It” — Money Is the New Morality

A look at Generation Wealth, Lauren Greenfield’s documentary about addiction and consumerism

“Father of Public Relations” Edward Bernays got women to smoke cigarettes back when it was considered unladylike. The cigarette was a phallic symbol; the PR stint was genius: suffragettes were given some cigs to light up on their march. The papers photographed them and published the images — boom, happy tobacco companies.