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Zeitgueist posted:Yes because propaganda works. It's been known for a very long time that it's not a good way to get information, but the USA government really digs torture for itself and it's allies. So you're saying that popular American television programs have been used for right-wing to far-right propaganda for years?
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Cocoa Ninja posted:You're probably doing Yes, I was being a bit on the nose, but ultimately there still remains little discussion of exactly how far right-wing popular entertainment of various forms is in the US and largely still is. Torture is one part of it btw, Black Ops 2 has you fighting with forces supported by Apartheid South Africa not to mention a litany of other non-sense. Any critique you see in the press is usually mush-mouthed or soft as can be and there pretty much is no competent analysis outside of film. Edit: I dislike using neo-conservative at this point, because it is too specific. This is straight up hard right authoritarian. Ardennes fucked around with this message at 23:22 on Dec 9, 2014 |
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, but it's worth stating for the record: American popular culture almost universally depicts torture in a way that completely meshes with the neo-conservative view of it — a short-in-duration, tense progression of techniques, nearly always employed by good men in tough times (the "ticking time bomb" scenario), often disobeying orders in order to immediately produce actionable intelligence. The ends justify the means.