the truth really is stranger than fiction
Nov. 8th, 2009 10:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anotheranonI saw "The Men Who Stare At Goats" last night and was mightily amused. A great deal of what makes the humor work is George Clooney's earnest delivery of his role as a spy who really, truly believes himself to be psychic.
The ads bill it as "based on a true story" and it's amazing - and disturbing - how closely the movie resembles the efforts of the U.S. military to train soldiers in psychic warfare. My fellow Americans, your tax money at work:
This is part 1 - YouTube should have all 5 parts
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Proof that there is woo, stupid, and crazy everywhere, even in the seats of power.
The ads bill it as "based on a true story" and it's amazing - and disturbing - how closely the movie resembles the efforts of the U.S. military to train soldiers in psychic warfare. My fellow Americans, your tax money at work:
This is part 1 - YouTube should have all 5 parts
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Proof that there is woo, stupid, and crazy everywhere, even in the seats of power.
