Drone operators adopted a death emblem declaring their own invulnerability
Evidence
Today, drone operators have been happy to take over that classical imagery. The badge of the MQ-9 Reaper drone shows the reaper, with its disturbing grin and blood dripping from its blade, accompanied by the motto “That others may die.” — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 334
Categorization
- XREF: Illustrates the psychic transformation of the drone operative moving between killing fields and home, a central theme in the reader’s purpose.
Related
- Eliminating reciprocal exposure to violence makes drones look like cowardly weapons. (similarity 0.79)
- Preserving one’s own soldiers has become a quasi-absolute imperative excluding sacrifice. (similarity 0.79)
- Faceless blurry drone imagery reduces moral resistance to killing (similarity 0.78)
- Drone targeting echoes archaic wax-doll nailing practices (similarity 0.78)