Re:Pentagon opens sweeping review of clandestine psychologic...
by banannaise on Monday September 19, 2022 @10:30AM
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The tools of warfare and colonialism become the tools of suppressing one's own people. Foucault's boomerang.
"These tools are good for us when we use them against our enemies" breaks down very fast when your apparatus starts to find "enemies" within its borders, a line we crossed a very long time ago.
Re:Pentagon opens sweeping review of clandestine psychologic...
by hunglee2 on Monday September 19, 2022 @11:05AM
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yes, I think actually it is other way round - one must first suppress your own population (via propaganda, ideally), so that they can be recruited to suppress the other.
"These tools are good for us when we use them against our enemies" breaks down very fast when your apparatus starts to find "enemies" within its borders, a line we crossed a very long time ago.