Freedom Porn

Last night I watched Apocalypse Now, Platoon and We Were Soldiers, all Hollywood "war" movies and all in the fine tradition of American crybaby entertainment.

When I saw Saving Private Ryan in a packed cinema there was a deep silence throughout the audience as the opening beach battle scene unfolded. No wait, a woman at the back left of the theatre laughed hysterically all the way through. I assumed she was uncomfortable at being in a room full of adults behaving like they were in church.

Steven Spielberg went on to make a movie about a bunch of really great guys who assassinated people for Israel. It's funny y'know? If I killed people for my activism maybe I'd be considered a hero too? Probably not and also: I'm not a fucking murdering piece of shit.

The Hurt Locker was about a guy so underwhelmed by civilian life that he needed to be where people were being slaughtered- to protect the lifestyle he couldn't stomach? Yeah, I know, that makes no sense whatsoever, but we are talking about the USA, not reality.

The USA is not real. It's propaganda gives the game away. They can't even make entertaining movies that properly explain why they kill so may people. Freedom? Please. Increasingly US sportertainment asks of it's uninsured athletes they risk their lives. You're pretty free when the only thing that gets you off is watching people with perfect health destroying themselves aintcha!

Don't get me wrong, I find these movies entertaining. They're porn. And that's freedom.



     

   

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