After taking a regular interest in his podcasts, I’m finding it hard to tell. Continue reading
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Is Jocko Willink A Psychopath?
Posted in Real Men with tags Afghanistan, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Echelon Front, Fields of Fire, Henry Rollins, Jim Webb, Jocko Podcast, Jocko Willink, Joe Rogan, John Pilger, Mark Donaldson, My War, Ozzy Osbourne, Peter Attia, Ramadi, SEAL, The Corner, The End of Silence, The Hurt Locker, The Wire, Tim Ferriss, Tools of Titans, War Pigs on December 5, 2018 by Jarrod Boyle
John Pilger vs the American Psycho
Posted in Film, Observation with tags Baudrillard, Bunuel, Chuck Liddell, Colombiana, colonel kurtz, Dali, Game of Thrones, George Miller, John Pilger, La Femme Nikita, Lethal Weapon, Luc Besson, Mel Gibson, Melbourne International Film Festival, psychopath, Rampage Jackson, Ransom, Sam Peckinpah, Shakespeare, Stanley Kubrick, Straw Dogs, Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, The Hurt Locker, The New Statesman, The Patriot, The Wild Bunch, Tolstoy, UFC, violence on screen, Violent films, W.B. Yeats on July 15, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
John Pilger, journalist and documentarian, criticized the film [The Hurt Locker] in The New Statesman, writing that “it offers a vicarious thrill via yet another standard-issue psychopath high on violence in somebody else’s country where the deaths of a million people are consigned to cinematic oblivion.” He compared the praise given to The Hurt Locker to the accolades given to 1978’s The Deer Hunter.[42] Continue reading
