QuoteThe big difference of course is that we had the Draft in 68 and Amerikan boys were being shot and killed every night on the news, along with the college protests.
Hell No We Won't go.
made things a bit different. I was in the last group of 18 year olds that were given draft numbers, but nobody was called up in 73. Now we live in a different times and baby killing is fine. The reality that you might be the actual one who does the baby killing made for a cultural awareness that first person shooter has totally destroyed. And holy fuck. I just realized I am a voice of authority about this.
The Department of Defense funded or collaborated on over 800 films going back to 1911 and 900 TV projects were backed by the DOD between 2005 and 2017. Criteria is if a production will increase public awareness of the military leading to enlistment retention and a positive attitude to baby killing..
Funding and collaboration comes at a price. The DOD takes creative control. Movies, TV, and games. As propaganda delivery tools they are all the same. An uncritical attitude to the military is successfully cultivated.
The elevator music I must endure at work has given me a new perspective on musicians, and I regret all the time in my life I have ever spent trying to find deep meanings in lyrics. That is a different subject, but every time this come on I want to puke.
QuoteThe easiest way to inject a propaganda idea into most peoples minds is to let it go through the medium of an entertainment picture, where they do not realize that they are being propagandized.
Our entire culture is built on exploitation. All American institutions and cultural models support violence under the right conditions.
The pragmatic policy from the point of view of power is to indulge young idealists and let them have their party. Nothing will come of their actions. Cultural conditioning to love baby killers is simply too great. Our doom is baked in the cake. The reaction at Columbia if accompanied by 100 similar actions would cultivate some outrage. Perhaps enough to 'move the needle' for a day. 100 Yale situations will mean nothing at all. 100 Yale type protests will essentially get no media coverage and Americans have better things to do.
Fun times to be had, and at the end of the day violence is normalized. And more white phosphorus will fall from the sky.