The Korean War and Hollywood propaganda
This was only the first of the great US follies that we Australians have so slavishly followed in our frightened, isolated conservatism, leading us into the succession of catastrophies, for the countries and for our own young men, in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan. Is China to be the next catastrophy?
Meg Hart is so very correct in her assertion that Hollywood has been a great propaganda machine, selling for mindless entertainment (‘circuses’) and obscene profit falsehoods about the ‘goodies’ (always handsome, overconfident and overbearing white males, with a thin sprinkling of exotic females for titillation) and the ‘baddies’, in succession and portrayed in their worst light, the native American Indians in the ‘cowboy and indian’ films on which I was raised, the Mexicans of the Alamo, the Japanese, the Russians, the Muslims, the Palestinians, and now the Chinese.
Despite its great financial wealth, magnificent educational resources and plethora of brilliant minds, the USA population remains largely scientifically illiterate, culturally uncertain, except for a blind belief in anti-socialism and guns, and susceptible to irrationalism, religious authoritarianism and fundamentalism, conspiracy theories, corporate and government-sponsored propaganda, and violence.
Its supine client states such as Australia are succumbing to the same diseases.
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