Even The Bald Eagle’s Call Is Propaganda
Channel: Caitlin Johnstone
Date: 2023-08-30

The most distinctly American fact you will ever learn is that the piercing cry you associate with the bald eagle is actually a Hollywood invention. The long, powerful cry you likely heard in your mind's ear when asked to imagine the call of a bald eagle is actually the call of a red-tailed hawk, whose voice Hollywood studios have been dubbing over footage of bald eagles for generations.

You simply cannot fit more America into a unit of information than this. The symbol of the nation which sits atop a globe-spanning empire held together by mass-scale propaganda, and the sound of its voice is itself a complete construct of propaganda.

Reading by Tim Foley.

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