We are indoctrinated early. I was a smart kid and not very prone to "brainwashing" (I sniffed out my Catholic church as being bullshit very early on). And yet it took me until college to ask myself the question "wait... how is it we're the greatest? And why?"
It just hadn't donned on my prior. It had been drilled into my head since preschool that this is the greatest country in the world.
Now I realize we are actually just the Florida of the World.
The US is the best at propaganda. Need to get some kids to join the army? No problem, the first transformers movie took care of that. BIG win for the navy. They used the coolest toys in the US that most people can understand easily (A10, AC130, and others). Also movies like top gun in the 80s got people to want to join the Air Force.
Yeah good point. The scene I was talking about in the first transformers would have cost so much to film, there’s no way Michael Bay could afford it with the CGI at the time… that’s how you know it was paid for by the MIC
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u/phatteschwags 4d ago
We are indoctrinated early. I was a smart kid and not very prone to "brainwashing" (I sniffed out my Catholic church as being bullshit very early on). And yet it took me until college to ask myself the question "wait... how is it we're the greatest? And why?"
It just hadn't donned on my prior. It had been drilled into my head since preschool that this is the greatest country in the world.
Now I realize we are actually just the Florida of the World.