Comments on: Your Tax Dollars at Work: Iraq Music Video http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2007/11/your-tax-dollars-at-work-iraq-music.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:33:30 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: alan greenspend http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2007/11/your-tax-dollars-at-work-iraq-music.html#comment-1560 alan greenspend Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:38:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2007/11/your-tax-dollars-at-work-iraq-music-video/#comment-1560 The comments at the youtube site we're as frightening as usual. Any dissenting post was met with swift and mindless vitriol.<br/><br/>Propaganda such as this is a very insidious and effective tool, especially on an undereducated, rigidly constructed consumer culture. The comments at the youtube site we’re as frightening as usual. Any dissenting post was met with swift and mindless vitriol.

Propaganda such as this is a very insidious and effective tool, especially on an undereducated, rigidly constructed consumer culture.

]]> By: Dave L http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2007/11/your-tax-dollars-at-work-iraq-music.html#comment-1555 Dave L Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:19:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2007/11/your-tax-dollars-at-work-iraq-music-video/#comment-1555 I saw this last night with my children (too young to notice, really) before a showing of Bee Movie, of all things.<br/><br/>One line from the song struck me as a serious miscalculation: "We will always be there!" I saw this last night with my children (too young to notice, really) before a showing of Bee Movie, of all things.

One line from the song struck me as a serious miscalculation: “We will always be there!”

]]> By: EEngineer http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2007/11/your-tax-dollars-at-work-iraq-music.html#comment-1546 EEngineer Sun, 11 Nov 2007 06:56:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2007/11/your-tax-dollars-at-work-iraq-music-video/#comment-1546 The target audience is too young, innocent, and naive to understand that they're being had. But it's not a hell of lot different than the countless young men who yearn to play college football. Most of those guys skip class and study time to slave away on the "farm team" for the 1 in 100 chance to play pro ball. Few of them even pick their school based on the academic ranking, programs, or professors available. The target audience is too young, innocent, and naive to understand that they’re being had. But it’s not a hell of lot different than the countless young men who yearn to play college football. Most of those guys skip class and study time to slave away on the “farm team” for the 1 in 100 chance to play pro ball. Few of them even pick their school based on the academic ranking, programs, or professors available.

]]> By: Yves Smith http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2007/11/your-tax-dollars-at-work-iraq-music.html#comment-1539 Yves Smith Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:44:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2007/11/your-tax-dollars-at-work-iraq-music-video/#comment-1539 Techfum,<br/><br/>I saw it in a theater too, so I suspect that moviegoers like you have already been exposed to it. And the movie playing (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead) was a rather intricate crime picture (not the cops shoot-em-up type). The audience was leaning toward the geriatric, and this being New York. someone yelled out a complaint after it finished and got a bit of applause.<br/><br/>As I said, it bothered me how seductive it was. It is actually a very good music video if you ignore the message. But if an old fart like me was intrigued and repelled by it, maybe it is too conventional to appeal to its target audience.<br/><br/>One can only hope. Techfum,

I saw it in a theater too, so I suspect that moviegoers like you have already been exposed to it. And the movie playing (Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead) was a rather intricate crime picture (not the cops shoot-em-up type). The audience was leaning toward the geriatric, and this being New York. someone yelled out a complaint after it finished and got a bit of applause.

As I said, it bothered me how seductive it was. It is actually a very good music video if you ignore the message. But if an old fart like me was intrigued and repelled by it, maybe it is too conventional to appeal to its target audience.

One can only hope.

]]> By: techfun http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2007/11/your-tax-dollars-at-work-iraq-music.html#comment-1538 techfun Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:21:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2007/11/your-tax-dollars-at-work-iraq-music-video/#comment-1538 I saw this video in full theater glory before the showing of The Martian Child at our local multiplex last weekend.<br/><br/>It really struck me as odd at first, but when I think back, I remember lots of pre-movie advertisements for the US Marine Corp - mainly the guy fighting the dragon with a sword who transforms into a Marine in a dress uniform. <br/><br/>This video shouldn't have surprised me, but it did a bit, coming before a movie based on a book that is based on a fictionalized, but semi-autobiographical book by a gay science fiction writer who adopts a kid. Clearly an audience that is eager to be won over by the military. I saw this video in full theater glory before the showing of The Martian Child at our local multiplex last weekend.

It really struck me as odd at first, but when I think back, I remember lots of pre-movie advertisements for the US Marine Corp – mainly the guy fighting the dragon with a sword who transforms into a Marine in a dress uniform.

This video shouldn’t have surprised me, but it did a bit, coming before a movie based on a book that is based on a fictionalized, but semi-autobiographical book by a gay science fiction writer who adopts a kid. Clearly an audience that is eager to be won over by the military.

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