reality, power and propaganda

"That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."    

History's actors are back in action. On television. In new reality shows that are aimed at the real battlefield.  The  American Mind. The 'stars' will earn their stripes alongside professional 'Badass Teammates' . A real, wannabe President and former General will command the operation which will be broadcast  all over the National airwaves. The ones that really make the  American Mind so mindless. Mindless to the millions murdered in their names all around the world during the American Century and  in the attempts to keep the 21st century an American one.

http://www.nbc.com/stars-earn-stripes/



Venerating the military is such a common American cultural ritual that one barely notices when it happens any longer. This morning, ABC News‘ Jake Tapper pointed to a fun, playful video of his ABC Newscolleague, Pentagon correspondent Luis Martinez, jumping out of a military airplane with the Golden Knights, the U.S. Army team that regularly parachutes into football stadiums during halftime as the adoring crowd cheers.

It’s actually necessary that America have a network reality show that pairs big, muscular soldiers with adoring D-list celebrities — hosted by a former Army General along with someone who used to be onDancing with the Stars – as they play sanitized war games for the amusement of viewers, all in between commercials from the nation’s largest corporations. That’s way too perfect of a symbol of American culture and politics for us not to have.

http://www.salon.com/2012/08/13/nbcs_war_for_fun_and_profit/