Tangent #1: Does anybody remember the old Microsoft Word for Windows installer, from the days when it came on floppies and ran on Windows 3.1? It had the usual set of images shown whilst installing, but to save space, they were all vector images, of neat arrays of documents, office computers and such. It struck me how they looked like the late-capitalist equivalent of Soviet propaganda posters.
Tangent #2: Does anybody know where I could find images of the propaganda posters from Terry Gilliam's Brazil?
I have the DVD as well (the Criterion Collection one). Alas, the posters there are a bit too low-res to be worth printing out and sticking on my office wall...
I'm told that the NSA gift shop sells NSA-themed tie-dyed T-shirts.
The NSA posters are scary on so many levels, apart from the obvious stylistic references... The glorification of military roles is quite obvious; perhaps this dubious concept that the US military is composed of noble, handsome functionaries is supposed to distract us from the overwhelming evidence that they are dispatched at the bidding of greedy, murderous, lying overlords?
Re: Brazil - I have the DVD, does that help? I remember the poster spoofs quite well!
"And what do you want for Christmas?" "Ooh! My very own credit card!"