Originally posted by iori_komei
You know, I don't remember seeing Mushroom clouds or even a mention of Nuclear Weapons
in 'An Inconvenient Truth', of course I may just not remember it, but it seems like it
would be something I would indeed remember.
I suppose I'll re-watch it and check over the weekend.
It turns out he does mention them and shows a longer clip of that same shroom late in the film. The context is that when we develop 'new technologies'we sometimes are forced to change our old bad habits, like whayt nukes did for waging war. It turns out that nukes just made war more of a sneaky covert ordeal between the imperial powers that possess them ala Cold War global domination of third world countries by both imperial superpowers.
Anyways, 'subliminals' are of little effect if the image is unfamiliar to the viewer. It's pointless to flash new logos at people really, but if the image is encoded into the physical structure of the brain, as are all memories, then viewing the image activates the regions and emotions of the brain associated with said image. The longer you see the image the more powerful its effect. This is why "leaders" always have flags hanging all behind them to activate ones "patriotic" thought-patterns / mindsets.
Al's use of that imagery is highly questionable. If you've read his "Assault on Reason" it becomes glaringly obvious he's welll learned in the propaganda arts, and like the disinfo I pointed out I see no excuses for this sort of propagation as being unwitting.
