Until our beloved United States stops trying to emulate the Roman Empire and goes back to the emphasis on education, art, and culture that truly made her great, then the author of the second article is right. Every piece of pop culture that comes down the pike, regardless of whether it possesses true artistic merit or not (I would posit that the film TTT and its source material DOES), will be interpreted by the unconscious hermeneutic of "let's bomb Saddam and take his oil before he bombs us and takes away our children". Thanks to the jumbled mess of postmodern thought (Whatever I believe to be true MUST be true, at least for me...), TTT has indeed become an effective piece of propaganda. Does that mean it was intended to be propaganda? Of course not... but neither was the Bible nor the Quran nor the US Constitution.
Look at what they are now. They've been twisted and perverted by both sides to justify this principle:
Tragedy and injustice serve as a pretext for retributionary bloodshed and oppression.
St. Paul, Mohammed, and the Founding Fathers must be spinning in their graves.
[ January 08, 2003: Message edited by: Greyhame ]
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