My child wanted to watch an animated green lantern series recently so we checked it out. Of course the main character who is the human green lantern is a fighter pilot who does a bunch of sweet fighter pilot flight maneuvers in the opening sequence. I told my child that shows like this often show the military being cool and doing cool stuff, but that in real life what fighter pilots actually do is drop bombs on children. I'm only human, I also enjoy (some) military action movies, but I know it's cotton candy brain poison too.
I hate how many children's shows have pro military pro cop propaganda. How do others talk to their kids about it to inoculate them against brainworms? I usually describe the military and the cops as being like a gang of bullies - they do things to make themselves look cool but really they just exist to hurt people and take their shit.
This probably only works for little kids (under age 8-9 or so) and if you live in the US, but I limit TV pretty much to just PBS Kids. Virtually no copaganda, definitely no military worship, and there’s enough variety that there’s always some shows my kids are excited to watch so it’s not like I’m forcing them to eat their veggies or anything .
I always watched PBS as a kid. Even though I was raised in a very religious community, stuff like Little Bear and Arthur were pretty good.
Though I do still think most of those had at some point a "good cop" character