2008 brings us 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.'
Steven CIA Spielberg is using the same psy-ops template he has for ages to support USG agendas, propaganda to support military recruiting and counterpropaganda to obscure politically dangerous information.
Stereotypes of gender and race and sanctioned behaviors embedded in an idealized narrative form serve to condition young minds with attitudes that enable US government goals, especially a positive attutude towards joining the military to carry out a moral crusade in the name of either Christianity, Democracy, or both.
Spielberg's new movie's title focus on the keyword "Skull" is a way to use mass media fiction to dilute the reality of the dark history of the Yale uber-fraternity called 'Skull and Bones.'
Here's the most comprehensive book on Yale's elite club, highly recommended-
http://www.amazon.com/Fleshing-Out-Skull-Bones-Investigations/dp/0972020721
The presidential election season of 2004 focused attention on this ugly group when it was realized that both candidates were members of this elite club which so well illustrates the illusion of American democracy. Ever since, pop media has been saturated with many other images of skull and bones for American kids to play with, especially Disney's (CIA for kidz!) racist, sexist, and militarist 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
Saturating American culture with this death symbol also serves the purpose of desensitizing children to death at the same time they are being given camo-colored clothes to wear to normalize militarism, a style that might be called 'Blackwater Chic.'
The use of the word "Crystal" has been used by Disney (CIA for kidz!) to embed in a young reader's mind the homonym created by the other pronunciation of the 'y' sound and getting instead "Christ" which evokes religious and moral themes.
This sublimal trick enables military recruiting since American war is marketed as religious war to the heavily-Christian American South where 50% of military recruits come from. This homonym device was used heavily in 'Atlantis: The Lost Empire' which was an early 2001 mirror of the invasion of the middle east planned by the Cheney White House long before 9/11/01. Spielberg's having put this word in the title phrase 'Kingdom of the Crystal...' makes this religious subliminal theme even stronger.
Have you seen the pictogram poster for the new Indiana Jones movie?
Even people who don't buy a ticket to the movie will see this ad and the hero/anti-hero framing devices in the pictogram.
Our white hero is fleeing a horde of evil black spear-chucking natives, just like the ubiquitous image from Disney's (CIA for kidz!) 'Pirates of the Caribbean.'
Mr. CIA Spielberg's new 'Indiana Jones' movie might as well be 'Birth of a Nation,' DW Griffith's 1915 silent film where the heroic Ku Klux Klan rescues white women from the evil clutches of rebellious ungrateful Negroes.
Right now and for years to come the US of Oil has lots of "hadjis" that need killing and children must be conditioned with racism. 50% of American military recruits still come from the slave states.
Military recruiting and nationalism are stoked by a racist view that other cultures are inferior and dangerous so that a pool of American men will follow up on a willingness (and even desire) to kill evil darker foreigners.