Perception engineering: The US Military-Industrial-Entertainment Complex is considering ways to defuse anti-American resentment in the Middle East; their latest idea is saturation bombing with MTV, to bring their young people into McWorld, away from the lure of terrorist martyrdom. Who needs 72 virgins in the afterlife, the argument goes, when you can have Britney Spears videos in the here and now? (Warning: evil pop-up ads)

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