reverse star wars indeed, apropos of your comment, here's a jacob geller thing in which he proposes arms technology breakthroughs enable war rather than deter it.
That was a fun watch, although I personally don't think he argued that point well. Most of his supporting evidence were fictional weapons from media rather than real-life historical events. Not much better than a citation being "it appeared to me in a dream". He did effectively show how space lasers are depicted in fiction and the common themes around them, though.
I don't know, I didn't watch the video, but American government policy is based on popular movies and TV shows quite a bit. The most famous direct example would be what happened when Nixon watched Patton, but it's not the only one.
Patton is a biopic of US WW2 general George Patton. He's the general that said the US fought the wrong enemy and wanted to invade the USSR immediately after ww2. As for Nixon I'm curious too.
I feel like I should feel shocked or surprised at how fucking stupid that is and yet it just makes sense. How many people died brutal deaths because dick watched a fucking movie?? :agony-deep:
reverse star wars indeed, apropos of your comment, here's a jacob geller thing in which he proposes arms technology breakthroughs enable war rather than deter it.
That was a fun watch, although I personally don't think he argued that point well. Most of his supporting evidence were fictional weapons from media rather than real-life historical events. Not much better than a citation being "it appeared to me in a dream". He did effectively show how space lasers are depicted in fiction and the common themes around them, though.
I don't know, I didn't watch the video, but American government policy is based on popular movies and TV shows quite a bit. The most famous direct example would be what happened when Nixon watched Patton, but it's not the only one.
What is Patton about and what did Nixon do?
Patton is a biopic of US WW2 general George Patton. He's the general that said the US fought the wrong enemy and wanted to invade the USSR immediately after ww2. As for Nixon I'm curious too.
Nixon watched the movie over and over and over again and got so pumped up about it that him and Kissinger escalated the Vietnam war into Cambodia.
I feel like I should feel shocked or surprised at how fucking stupid that is and yet it just makes sense. How many people died brutal deaths because dick watched a fucking movie?? :agony-deep: