apophenia
Well-Known Member
Just saw The Dark Night Rises.
What a load of bollocks.
This was clearly pay-as-you-go propaganda.
Not that people notice. I remember 'Starship Troopers' and the war against the Iraq-nid Empire. Those nasty insects in the desert ... I could not believe the stone cold poker-faced ignorance of people who told me I was a 'conspiracy theorist' when I pointed out that this was basically propaganda to support the idea of a second invasion of Iraq. I mean, come on people, Iraq-nids ?
Anyway, the Dark Knight, if you hadn't noticed,blatantly conflates the Occupy Wall Street movement and Al Quaeda as a single threat to American free-market capitalism. Bruce Wayne/Batman conflates the 1% super-wealthy (portrayed as self-sacrificing philanthropists) and the Military Industrial Complex (the wonderful armoury produced by Fox).
The evil Bain and the other inhabitants of The Pit look like arabs in their shawls etc (more Iraq-nids ?) and present in Wall St with the political philosophy of OWS.
The insane expenditure on arms (USA accounts for 41% of the planet earth's military budget) is justified with the lavish display of lethal techno-fetish in the name of protecting the good people of Gotham (give me a break).
Modern US culture has established an extraordinary new development in the world of propaganda - sell it with popcorn and coke. The herd just laps it up.
The audience just doesn't join the dots.
What a load of bollocks.
This was clearly pay-as-you-go propaganda.
Not that people notice. I remember 'Starship Troopers' and the war against the Iraq-nid Empire. Those nasty insects in the desert ... I could not believe the stone cold poker-faced ignorance of people who told me I was a 'conspiracy theorist' when I pointed out that this was basically propaganda to support the idea of a second invasion of Iraq. I mean, come on people, Iraq-nids ?
Anyway, the Dark Knight, if you hadn't noticed,blatantly conflates the Occupy Wall Street movement and Al Quaeda as a single threat to American free-market capitalism. Bruce Wayne/Batman conflates the 1% super-wealthy (portrayed as self-sacrificing philanthropists) and the Military Industrial Complex (the wonderful armoury produced by Fox).
The evil Bain and the other inhabitants of The Pit look like arabs in their shawls etc (more Iraq-nids ?) and present in Wall St with the political philosophy of OWS.
The insane expenditure on arms (USA accounts for 41% of the planet earth's military budget) is justified with the lavish display of lethal techno-fetish in the name of protecting the good people of Gotham (give me a break).
Modern US culture has established an extraordinary new development in the world of propaganda - sell it with popcorn and coke. The herd just laps it up.
The audience just doesn't join the dots.
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