"Far more insidious and less open to conscious challenge are the notions that so fit into the dominant political culture's field of established images that they appear not as biased manipulations but as 'the nature of things.'"
--Parenti, Inventing Reality
That's a pretty concise description of things, I'd say.
My hottest Armageddon take is that this part of the plot actually makes sense.
Go on.
It's premised on two points:
Now you can't train anyone to do anything Real Fucking Complicated in two weeks, and you wouldn't want to send someone up there who isn't a genuine expert in the task when the whole world is at stake. Of course, flying space shuttles is also Real Fucking Complicated. But they don't train Bruce Willis to fly, they only teach him and his crew how to maneuver in space suits and drive the space buggy (that has a machine gun on it for some reason). All they have to do is survive the journey up there until it's time to drill. The real astronauts fly everyone to the asteroid and do the Real Fucking Complicated space stuff, but then the oil well crew handles the Real Fucking Complicated task of precision drilling through unknown geology.
This division of labor comes in handy, too, when they land off course and have to drill through a much more difficult patch of the asteroid than they originally expected. Had they given actual astronauts some half-assed crash course in drilling, they and the whole planet would have been fucked. It made all the sense in the world to have your best space shuttle pilots pilot the space shuttle and your best hole drillers drilling the hole.
Consider me a convert.
The Michael Bay truther movement grows by one
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