https://www.quakerranter.org A Weekly Newsletter and Blog from Martin Kelley Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:17:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://i0.wp.com/www.quakerranter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cropped-qr-512.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 https://www.quakerranter.org 32 32 16720591 https://www.quakerranter.org/army_of_none/ https://www.quakerranter.org/army_of_none/#comments Thu, 17 Jul 2003 09:13:16 +0000 http://www.quakerranter.org/?p=471 Recruiting Satire. I’ve always found U.S. Army recruiting advertising fascinating. It’s not just that the ads are well-produced. They catch onto basic human yearnings in a way that’s the teen equivalent of self-help books. “Be all that you can be” is wonderful–who wouldn’t want that. And the current ads making the Army look like a extreme sport also hits the nexus of cool and inspiring. The current US Army slogan is “An Army of One,” which might almost make potential recruits forget that a basic cornerstone of military training is wiping away individuality to mold recruits into interchangable units. The link above is to “Army of None,” a smart parody of the official recruiting site.

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