{"id":390831,"date":"2018-12-28T15:58:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T14:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/whats-missing-from-our-collective-memory\/"},"modified":"2018-12-28T15:58:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T14:58:41","slug":"whats-missing-from-our-collective-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/whats-missing-from-our-collective-memory\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Missing From Our Collective Memory?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The overhyped but underrated 2006 Christopher Nolan film<i> Inception <\/i>developed the idea of deliberately seeding ideas in the minds of powerful people in an effort to anticipate, control, and profit by their subsequent behavior. Compelling concept, and applicable to\u2013or drawn from\u2013modern propaganda, which I wrote about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/03\/02\/colonizing-the-western-mind\/\"><span style=\"color: #1155cc;\"><u>earlier<\/u><\/span><\/a> this year. Yet there was something missing from the story. Only after watching Amazon\u2019s new series <i>Homecoming<\/i> did I realize what it was. Starring a vacillating, troubled Julia Roberts, and with an especially loathsome turn by Bobby Cannavale, <i>Homecoming <\/i>picks up on modern theme of perception management like <i>Inception<\/i> did. But rather than focus on implanting ideas in an unguarded mind, Sam Esmail\u2019s new series explores the behavioral impact of erasing them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cHomecoming\u201d is a transition program sold by Robert\u2019s Heidi Bergman as a kind of secluded Brigadoon, a \u201csafe space\u201d where returning soldiers can prepare to reintegrate into society after harrowing experiences on the sand-swept war zones of MENA. The action of the series takes place in this former milieu, a converted office park deep in sandy outback of central Florida. It is fascinating to watch the clinical \u2018adjustments\u2019 being made to men\u2019s shell-shocked minds as they \u2018recuperate\u2019 in the serene confines of a domestic nowhereland. The quiet psychological action of the story forms a knife-edged contrast with the deafening battlefield histories of the soldiers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sound has&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/12\/28\/american-amnesia-whats-missing-from-our-collective-memory\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The overhyped but underrated 2006 Christopher Nolan film Inception developed the idea of deliberately seeding ideas in the minds of powerful people in an effort to anticipate, control, and profit by their subsequent behavior. Compelling concept, and applicable to\u2013or drawn from\u2013modern propaganda, which I wrote about earlier this year. Yet there was something missing from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-390831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}