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Porn as Psychological Warfare

15:34 / 05.04.02

When Israeli forces occupied 3 TV stations in Ramallah last week, instead of merely taking them off the air they allegedly engaged in some programming of their own. They broadcast hardcore pornography into Palestinian homes.

Full story here

The article speculates that this is a type of psychological warfare akin to the U.S. using blaring rock and/or roll music to drive Manuel Noriega out of his sanctuary. If you can demoralized or corrupt muslims by showing them porn, if you could seize the airwaves in a similar fashion in London or New York, what type of footage would use you use to demoralize those populations?

Matthew Fluxington

15:38 / 05.04.02

Porn certainly wouldn't work.

I think one thing that could be done is probably broadcast brutal torture or something...

15:50 / 05.04.02

Porn certainly wouldn't work.

Well, it probably wouldn't demoralize people, but it would keep a lot of 'em off the streets and well behaved.

15:51 / 05.04.02

the porn, though, encourages viewers to watch. I hope the torture footage wouldn't.

16:02 / 05.04.02

Nah. It would likely be broadcast on FOX in all its exploitative splendor. If anything the real psychological warfare is the slowly escalating desensitivity to real violence as a spectator sport. I'm sure torture broadcasts are just the next step to bring in the viewers.

Look at 'reality TV' shows like FOX's The Chamber. For the brief while it was broadcast, it was a ratings bonanza. It didn't last long on air only because the novelty of seeing contestants endure pain, extreme heat and extreme cold while answering pop trivia questions, wore off once those things got repetitive.

American TV audiences will watch ANYTHING ::shudders:: Ancient Rome here we come.

23:04 / 05.04.02

I always thought they should include a pack of hungry hyeneas on every football feild.

02:13 / 06.04.02

To demoralize America, I would show Noh and Kabuki plays nonstop, occasionally interrupted with Bollywood films and Peking Opera. Better yet, show the first five minutes of a normal, popular TV show, then switch over.

PATricky - Hyenas are way to small to take on football players, and anyway, they're largely scavengers. First you send on Komodo dragons...then the hyenas finishing off the survivors can be the halftime show.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

04:21 / 06.04.02

Oh come on...show "Glitter" on the major networks, and the most you would get is higher Cable ratings. There are too many channels in the US to bother trying something like this.

Unless they wanted to torture us by playing Spice Girls songs in McDonald's ads.

Wait a minute....

A

07:37 / 07.04.02

Man-on-Man porn, with all American soldiers, football hero-types, corporate executives and the like on the recieving end of some heavy man-love from big tough Arab types (or whatever bad-guy-of-the-week people the American public are taught to fear at any given time), while renouncing God and Country and begging for more.