To Reach Afghans, Pentagon Drafts Mimes, Storytellers, Wizard of Oz
June 27th, 2010In summary, the U.S. military is aware that “American Culture” is a strategic weapon that is capable of defeating an enemy, or entire populations, without necessarily having to kill them. The U.S. military, however, must and will kill in order to allow “American Culture” into a society in order to repurpose it. Military failures will result from failing to thrust, “that bayonet into an enemy’s heart.”
—The American Culture Bomb: Satire from the Onion and a Long Forgotten U.S. Army War College Essay
Via: Technofascism Blog:
The technocrats need to make Afghanistan a safe place for all the future mining corporations but how can that be accomplished when the entire population hates the fake modern society that they know will be imposed upon them?
Simple solution: employ the same kind of mind-control, social engineering nonsense that keeps the masses in line back home: endless television advertising, control of media, polls, worship of celebrities and sports figures, financial desperation, and “democracy”.
If you are a well-adjusted, participant in modern society, you are already quite familiar with the techniques the US military will use to convince the Afghans that “our” way is the best way. Indeed, it must be the only way.
to wit:
…it’s tripe like having dumbed down culture foisted upon people that polarizes a population into sheeple-or-people.
Someone dust off the Vietnam era http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Operations_and_Revolutionary_Development_Support for the web 2.0 generation?
The god-awful truth is that American culture, as god-awful as it is, is better than Afgani culture or any other culture in the world today. What that says about the human prospect is really too god-awful to contemplate.