The most disturbing video you’ll see today: the weird-ass recruitment video from the US Army’s 4th Psychological Operations (PSYOP) Group.
“Have you ever wondered who’s pulling the strings?”.
That video is the equivalent of "I'd love to have shot that guy" after a body turns up with a bullet hole in it.
If you or I -- people who don't have the means to shoot that guy, or who would likely get caught if we tried -- put out that video, sure, maybe we're just talking shit and puffing up our chests. But when a state actor with functionally limitless resources puts it out, and we know for a fact they've shot guys before and tried to shoot many more, you'd have to be beyond credulous to write it off as "marketing BS."
Maybe ... but I've seen a lot of both slick and cringe marketing coming out of large corporations over the years. Reality is usually far more boring, full of ordinary people doing fairly ordinary work, making mistakes, etc.
It could also be that they are the best advertising agency in the US that we've never heard of.
But my money is on them having paid another company to make it, found it cool (probably while slightly drunk in the conference room one evening), got the approval from HQ and released it.
edit: I'm reminded of that video of the bond villains, going home after a hard day's work.. heh.
That video is the equivalent of "I'd love to have shot that guy" after a body turns up with a bullet hole in it.
If you or I -- people who don't have the means to shoot that guy, or who would likely get caught if we tried -- put out that video, sure, maybe we're just talking shit and puffing up our chests. But when a state actor with functionally limitless resources puts it out, and we know for a fact they've shot guys before and tried to shoot many more, you'd have to be beyond credulous to write it off as "marketing BS."
Maybe ... but I've seen a lot of both slick and cringe marketing coming out of large corporations over the years. Reality is usually far more boring, full of ordinary people doing fairly ordinary work, making mistakes, etc.
It could also be that they are the best advertising agency in the US that we've never heard of.
But my money is on them having paid another company to make it, found it cool (probably while slightly drunk in the conference room one evening), got the approval from HQ and released it.
edit: I'm reminded of that video of the bond villains, going home after a hard day's work.. heh.