Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Denton- Rendition, Music as a Weapon


You're pretty much a complete asshole if you say you believe that torture is good. No person, without displaying sociopathic tendencies agrees with torture; however it is a necessity, especially in war. It is ridiculous to think otherwise. Ever since our ancestor monkeys invaded another tribe of monkeys because they suspected them of weapons of mass destruction. Torture is the best way to get information out of someone who is not talking.


Because, we as human beings who are empathetic to other human beings, hate torture but accept it as an inevitability, we chose to report and listen to the non-violent “fun torture.”
The United States military has been reported to have special psychological operations officers drive around Afghanistan blaring music such as Metallica, Thin Lizzy, the Offspring, Eminem, Dr. Dre and Bruce Springsteen’s song Born in the U.S.A.
The technique is called acoustic bombardment, or aural bombardment. What the point in this is I do not know, however, it is almost certain to not be working. Just think about it, could you be tortured simply by having to listen to the soundtrack to Glee or any other musical favorites. Personally, I’d be annoyed at first, but eventually I would just learn to tune it out.
My suspicion, the military uses such techniques as so to hide their atrocious actions of sensory deprivation and sexual humiliation. Reports surfacing about the military blaring “Enter the Sandman” by Metallica, leads people to just think how funny and forget about the violent side of torture.

2 comments:

  1. Nice blog. We are bombarded by all sorts of things, not just music. If you were in a cell 24/7, music would be torture.

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  2. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I would be fine with having "Enter Sandman" blasted into my cell. I wouldn't even consider that torture!

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