The joke itself is hilarious, but i want to point out an easy to gloss over angle:
In real life, {nefarious forces} killed ~3,000 people in an unbelievable spectacle (9/11) and then used that to motivate thousands of dead American troops(edit: tens of thousands or more veterans abandoned and left to feel like they fought for nothing, resulting in horrific levels of suicide), millions of dead iraqis, afghanis, syrians, etc, trillions of dollars pissed into a {black hole} and the perpetuation of endless war
The same nefarious forces used russias logical response to NATO expansionism and staging a coup in Ukraine (2014) to motivate pouring hundreds of billions of dollars of fuel on a fire that’s only going to kill people who look and think like us and perpetuate more endless war
Those are the most extreme examples of psyops, with massive body counts, which physically reshape things, but we shouldn’t neglect the psyops meant to change our mental landscapes. The “muslim terrorist” archetype was being seeded in the popular consciousness long before it could have organically appeared. So many “blockbusters” used the trope it was almost prophetic. But I’d call it predictive programming.
I dunno, maybe people don’t go as far as me and don’t connect as many dots as I do. If anyone sees this and wants to start a fight about it, just pretend I said nothing more than “Norm will forever be a treasure; on an unrelated tangent we should also be on guard against propaganda campaigns meant to drive the collective unconscious towards malignant ends”
The joke itself is hilarious, but i want to point out an easy to gloss over angle:
In real life, {nefarious forces} killed ~3,000 people in an unbelievable spectacle (9/11) and then used that to motivate thousands of dead American troops, millions of dead iraqis, afghanis, syrians, etc, trillions of dollars pissed into a {black hole} and the perpetuation of endless war
The same nefarious forces used russias logical response to NATO expansionism and staging a coup in Ukraine (2014) to motivate pouring hundreds of billions of dollars of fuel on a fire that’s only going to kill people who look and think like us and perpetuate more endless war
Those are the most extreme examples of psyops, with massive body counts, which physically reshape things, but we shouldn’t neglect the psyops meant to change our mental landscapes. The “muslim terrorist” archetype was being seeded in the popular consciousness long before it could have organically appeared. So many “blockbusters” used the trope it was almost prophetic. But I’d call it predictive programming.
I dunno, maybe people don’t go as far as me and don’t connect as many dots as I do. If anyone sees this and wants to start a fight about it, just pretend I said nothing more than “Norm will forever be a treasure; on an unrelated tangent we should also be on guard against propaganda campaigns meant to drive the collective unconscious towards malignant ends”