On the subject of military self-representation, I was reading ASPI's weekly round up of things to read when they directed me to this:
British troops dancing and singing...
which then led to Swedish marines lip syncing to Greased Lightning..
and then to US soldiers doing a parody of a Saturday Night Live skit.
This last is particularly interesting especially as it pokes fun at the US military-- a common refrain is "The US Army won't let me go home". Does this count as sanitized resistance (presumably it's approved by the Powers in Charge)? Or, is it just some guys having fun, showing "us" at home, the readers who run across it in some news story, that soldiers are human too? In short, to what ends are we being allowed to see these?
British troops dancing and singing...
which then led to Swedish marines lip syncing to Greased Lightning..
and then to US soldiers doing a parody of a Saturday Night Live skit.
This last is particularly interesting especially as it pokes fun at the US military-- a common refrain is "The US Army won't let me go home". Does this count as sanitized resistance (presumably it's approved by the Powers in Charge)? Or, is it just some guys having fun, showing "us" at home, the readers who run across it in some news story, that soldiers are human too? In short, to what ends are we being allowed to see these?
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