The spook use of film metaphors and similes

[Paul Rigby]

Perhaps a short course in film and video production and technique is in order for today's citizenry; Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin comes to mind, and others.

Jeff wells' new (long overdue) blog entry at Rigorous Intuition 2.0 has this tidbit:

"The Ku Klux Klan, let's remember, didn't burn crosses until they saw it depicted in Birth of a Nation. And the art of persuasion has come only a long way since.”


I'd bet brioche against titanium that the security agencies of the empire have acquired and embedded the skills and knowledge, the tools and techniques, into their daily output.

I concur about film fraud now being de rigeur for the spooks, Ed, but can't help marvelling at the crassness of the literary attempts above to refashion eyewitness testimony in accord with the preferred narrative. For some irrational reason, I'd always expected it to be the other way round. Just goes to show, believe what you find, not what you expect!