Comments on: Review: Generation Kill http://mentalpolyphonics.com/posts/review-generation-kill-2 Committees exist to share blame. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:11:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Jared http://mentalpolyphonics.com/posts/review-generation-kill-2/comment-page-1#comment-71481 Jared Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:16:00 +0000 http://mentalpolyphonics.com/?p=3080#comment-71481 Yeah, I haven't read <em>The Killer Elite</em>. I'd like to read a review of GK that compares it to KE? Yeah, I haven’t read The Killer Elite. I’d like to read a review of GK that compares it to KE?

]]> By: Jack http://mentalpolyphonics.com/posts/review-generation-kill-2/comment-page-1#comment-71480 Jack Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:15:55 +0000 http://mentalpolyphonics.com/?p=3080#comment-71480 GK is based (closely) on <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/22026717/the_stories_behind_generation_kill" rel="nofollow"><em>The Killer Elite</a> reportage from Rolling Stone. GK is based (closely) on The Killer Elite reportage from Rolling Stone.

]]> By: Jack http://mentalpolyphonics.com/posts/review-generation-kill-2/comment-page-1#comment-71479 Jack Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:24:55 +0000 http://mentalpolyphonics.com/?p=3080#comment-71479 Militaries are <em>fascinating</em> organizations. They make real the masculine dialog between The Outlaw and The Authoritarian, and have that whole bit about soldiers needing a soundtrack to give them social context (<em>The Ecstatic</em> has at least one track targeted at soldiers in Iraq). I can't think of any other social organ that actively de-socializes people, except maybe the police (although some people think both police and criminal never fully socialize in the first place). It's The Hero's Journey, reified and applied en-masse ("army of one"). That's one reason stories about war are so engaging -- they flick switches deep inside the brain. I subscribe to the theory that we're only just figuring out The Heroine's Journey. It's interesting to see the differences in what female (the plight) and male (the fight) war correspondents tend to write about, I reckon it's directly on-point. Militaries are fascinating organizations. They make real the masculine dialog between The Outlaw and The Authoritarian, and have that whole bit about soldiers needing a soundtrack to give them social context (The Ecstatic has at least one track targeted at soldiers in Iraq). I can’t think of any other social organ that actively de-socializes people, except maybe the police (although some people think both police and criminal never fully socialize in the first place).

It’s The Hero’s Journey, reified and applied en-masse (“army of one”). That’s one reason stories about war are so engaging — they flick switches deep inside the brain.

I subscribe to the theory that we’re only just figuring out The Heroine’s Journey. It’s interesting to see the differences in what female (the plight) and male (the fight) war correspondents tend to write about, I reckon it’s directly on-point.

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