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Post by poseygilbert on Aug 11, 2014 2:08:38 GMT -6
In Lies We Trust.
Didn't you always know it?
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Post by paulette on Aug 11, 2014 12:19:48 GMT -6
Hi Possey - I haven't been here regularily but good to see a post from you. I started watching this, but will finish tonight when I have an uninterrupted stretch of time. So far though, I well remember "Duck and Cover" and the cognitive dissonance it created in me. I was smart little girl and we lived 30 miles from a major nuclear naval base in Corpus Christi, Texas. I knew that the little piece of paper with my parents' names and telephone number that was hung around my neck during the War of Pigs in Cuba crisis was NOT going to provide much of anything. We'd all be blown off the map, or at least in no shape to find each other. This and other "educational films" (they used to be put on before the movie you went to see was shown) were so obviously propaganda (I didn't know the word then). I did know that my parents didn't talk about war or even critically discuss what was on the news or programming. They preferred Andy ? singing Moon River. Its like we lived in a bubble. I think most people in the USA do and Canada too. I'm not sure that the Palestinians or Curds or all the other beleagered folks of the world have the luxury of doing so. Anyway. More later.
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