Episode 197: Episode 151 - Wag The Dog Movie Review: Prophetic Political Satire

Discerning Consciousness' Podcast

In this episode Ant considers why the movie Wag The Dog was so ahead of its time in terms of predicting the current media generated post-truth world, and the type of absurd lies that we witnessed during the recent Covid-19 pandemic. He explains what is meant by the idiom 'wag the dog' and how this dimension of the movie is revealed at various points during the plot line. Ant also focuses upon how the fake war is produced and what the dialogue says about the main characters involved.