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The Strangelove Effect: How We are Hoodwinked into Accepting a New World War
• http://www.globalresearch.ca, By John Pilger President Merkin Muffley: “I will not go down in history as the greatest mass-murderer since Adolf Hitler.”
General Turgidson: “Perhaps it might be better, Mr. President, if you were more concerned with the American people than with your image in the history books.”
The genius of Stanley Kubrick’s film is that it accurately represents the cold war’s lunacy and dangers. Most of the characters are based on real people and real maniacs. There is no equivalent to Strangelove today, because popular culture is directed almost entirely at our interior lives, as if identity is the moral zeitgeist and true satire is redundant; yet the dangers are the same.