A little perspective:
According to Richard Hoagland -- an imaginative man to whom I owe much of my interest in Mars exploration -- Steven Spielberg's excellent new movie, "War of the Worlds," is part of an ill-defined psychological indoctrination scheme with far-reaching historical roots.
According to Spielberg: "I just thought it would be fun to make a really scary movie with really scary aliens, which I had never done before."
Somebody hand me Occam's Razor . . .
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On the other hand (whether you believe him or not) Hoagland definitely establishes his credentials as also a first-rate conspiracy theorist -- I gotta say, I loved the logical "jumps" and wild associations.
Interesting that RH admits he hasn't seen Spielberg's WOTW at the time of writing his blog entry. I haven't either (on my list when the crowds abate!) but from what I've read, it strikes me that, far from covertly doing the government's bidding, Spielberg may actually have made a sly ANTI-Iraq War movie. Think about it. Aliens invade us with no provocation and superior weaponry and basically trash our country completely. Remind anyone of some OTHER war possibly? Has it occurred to anyone that Spielberg may, in effect, be saying, look folks, this is what it's like for THEM. This is how we'd feel if virtually the same thing were done to US.
I wrote a post here commenting on the same parallel. John Shirley posted it on his blog, http://www.johnshirley.net. Look at the right-hand column.
I remember reading it now. Apologies for not referencing you. Evidently, I simply (and conveniently) forgot where the idea came from!
No problem. I imagine it's a pretty common sentiment among people with functioning brains.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_warfare
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_operations