Very powerful imagery, but I had to look up what it was: a recruitment video for US Army Psyops
> The Army’s psychological warfare soldiers are using their brand of mental combat to bring in what the service needs: recruits
082349872349872 13 days ago [-]
Now that we can "rotoscope" full motion video via AI, Koko the Clown becomes an even better mascot.
[would Betty Boop then be an appropriate mascot for what Linebarger quaintly calls "Oestrous Propaganda"? As evidence that even in the 1940s and 1950s scientists and other men of culture were punctilious with providing sources, here's Linebarger:
> Figure 31: Oestrous Black. Young human beings, especially young males, are apt to give considerable attention to sex. In areas of military operations, they are removed from the stimuli of secondary sex references which are (in America) an accepted part of everyone's daily life: bathing beauty photos, magazine covers, semi-nudes in advertisements, etc. Our enemies tried to use the resulting pin-up craze for propaganda purposes, hoping that a vain arousal of oestrum would diminish morale. This choice Japanese item is from the Philippines. (The best collection of these is kept in a locked file—for experts only—at the Library of Congress.) ]
Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6amCG2KHlRg (the Gaidai movie referred to Pushkin, so there are layers under layers here; judging by geography I wouldn't even be surprised if the surface layer were also referring to the third)
emsign 13 days ago [-]
Eww
sorokod 13 days ago [-]
Seem to be created by the "4th Psychological Operations Group"
Since Obama failed to renew the Smith-Mundt Act, American Citizens are now legally allowed to be subjected to U.S. Military Psyops. With that in mind, who are the oppressed now?
77pt77 13 days ago [-]
Like the institutions doing that consider themselves shackled by legality.
Get real.
webdoodle 13 days ago [-]
Well that makes it okay then right? I guess I should just roll over and let them destroy what little left of our civil rights that still exist...
77pt77 13 days ago [-]
Never said it makes it ok.
it's just ineffective.
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> The Army’s psychological warfare soldiers are using their brand of mental combat to bring in what the service needs: recruits
[would Betty Boop then be an appropriate mascot for what Linebarger quaintly calls "Oestrous Propaganda"? As evidence that even in the 1940s and 1950s scientists and other men of culture were punctilious with providing sources, here's Linebarger:
> Figure 31: Oestrous Black. Young human beings, especially young males, are apt to give considerable attention to sex. In areas of military operations, they are removed from the stimuli of secondary sex references which are (in America) an accepted part of everyone's daily life: bathing beauty photos, magazine covers, semi-nudes in advertisements, etc. Our enemies tried to use the resulting pin-up craze for propaganda purposes, hoping that a vain arousal of oestrum would diminish morale. This choice Japanese item is from the Philippines. (The best collection of these is kept in a locked file—for experts only—at the Library of Congress.) ]
Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6amCG2KHlRg (the Gaidai movie referred to Pushkin, so there are layers under layers here; judging by geography I wouldn't even be surprised if the surface layer were also referring to the third)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th_Psychological_Operations...
Get real.
it's just ineffective.