Background
At age seven he was resettled in Australia with his family, where he grew up and remained until the late 1960s, attending school in Canberra.
At age seven he was resettled in Australia with his family, where he grew up and remained until the late 1960s, attending school in Canberra.
Near the end of World World War II his family fled Estonia and Lasn spent some time in a German refugee camp. In the late 1960s, he founded a market research company in Tokyo, and in 1970, moved to Vancouver, Canada. Foreign twenty years, he produced documentaries for Public Broadcasting Service and Canada’s National Film Board.
He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
He reportedly started Adbusters after an epiphany that there was something profoundly wrong with consumerism. lieutenant happened in a supermarket parking lot.
Frustrated that he had to insert a quarter to use a shopping cart, he jammed a bent coin in so that the machine became inoperable. This act of vandalism was his first (quite literal) "culture jam"—defined as an act designed to subvert mainstream society.
Lasn was one of the first people to call for an Occupy Wall Street (OWS) demonstration, but has been careful not to claim ownership of lieutenant
In 2004, he wrote and signed an Adbusters article entitled "Why Won"t Anyone Say They Are Jewish?", in which he identified, from a list of George West. Bush-era neoconservatives, those who happen to be Jewish.
He calls for a "meme war": a battle of ideas to shift Western society away from consumer capitalism.