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HughManateeWins wrote:What if every time a recruitable young girl saw a cat...she remembered that woman named "CATlett" and her mistreatment by the USG?
barracuda wrote:I doubt the overt content is any more undigested than any supposed embedded propaganda.
I think ignoring the ostensible message in books and films is really one of the weakest aspects of your analysis.
The subtext, the more deeply hidden the better, is all that matters to you, and perhaps rightly so in the context of a UFO conspiracy forum. Happily, that's not the case with most people.
I don't expect works of pop culture to spark or drive revolutionary politics on the ground, but inasmuch as they work to show totalitarianism in a poor light, and highlight the cruelty of state oppression, I can be thankful for that.
There are plenty of films and books that attempt to instill patriotism and militarism directly to the viewer, so I appreciate those that don't.
the theme of the film is clear -
Regarding "mockingbird", it's worth keeping in mind that code names like this are chosen for their very ability to hide as completely innocent and innocous words. How is it that they are able to do that? Because these words are commonly used without any reference to the codenamed operation. Shocking.
barracuda wrote:HMW wrote:Anti-smoking ads are cleverly designed to sell smoking. Same thing.
Care to support that assertion? I suppose that's why the rate of smoking in the US has decreased by half in the last forty years, because that clever trick is working so well.
MayDay wrote:Oy. I'm off to a hopeless start, apparently.
Nonsense, you're quite right to question these kinds of posts. They're silly. Worse than that, they form a kind of propaganda of their own, in which artworks which denigrate fascism are consistently twisted against themselves to become, in Hugh's polemic, their own opposite.
MacCruiskeen wrote:Next up: What if every time a recruitable young boy saw a hamster...he remembered that place named "hAMSTERdam" and its occupation by the Nazis?
It chills me to the bone.
Word X reminds me of word Y, therefore HINT HINT + duh + WAKE UP SHEEPLE + eyeroll-smiley.
i wouldn't go that far. his analyses have interesting historical references. all i know is that the products of the celluloid mill suck. banal repetitive predictable. so how could something that sucks endure? answer: a conspiracy to eliminate alternatives. the idea of a market where purchasers choose product to satisfy their needs is inverted. the producer satisfies its needs via captive consumers. the content is constructed to reenforce a negative feedback loop. if this idea is accurate it would follow that the product would necessarily contain recognizable patterns betraying the goals and designs of the conspirators. hugh may be onto something.yet has zero following for his ideas.
Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:Wow. Like ringing a bell...the adamant deniers rise up with ad hominem scorn, not science or history....
"Lexical decision tree
Semantic priming
Recency effect"
etc.
Lists of science I've posted for years.
Know how marketing works?
Child developmental psychology?
Conditioning?
Indoctrination?
Psychological Operations?
I didn't make any of it up.
Elihu wrote:i wouldn't go that far. his analyses have interesting historical references. all i know is that the products of the celluloid mill suck. banal repetitive predictable. so how could something that sucks endure? answer: a conspiracy to eliminate alternatives. the idea of a market where purchasers choose product to satisfy their needs is inverted. the producer satisfies its needs via captive consumers. the content is constructed to reenforce a negative feedback loop. if this idea is accurate it would follow that the product would necessarily contain recognizable patterns betraying the goals and designs of the conspirators. hugh may be onto something.yet has zero following for his ideas.
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