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The Farm Podcast Mach II

Full Metal Jacket & the Cult of the USMC w/ Vincent Treewell & Recluse

Season 2

Full Metal Jacket, Stanley Kubrick, United States Marine Corps (USMC), basic training, indoctrination, brainwashing, pop culture in Vietnam, The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle USMC, Batman & Robin, R. Lee Emery, how R. Lee Emery got his part, Kubrick's recreation of Vietnam in the UK, Carl Jung, the "Duality of Man," Kyros, Mannerbund, basic training as a modern form of initiation, warrior cults, Marines as killers and not robots, urban combat, parallels to Full Metal Jacket and post-Cold War US military engagements, JFK assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald, Charles Whitman, the breakdown of the chain of command, First Blood, Rambo, Platoon, Kubrick's views on violence in entertainment, A Clockwork Orange, Kubrick's criticism of cartoons, cartoons as indoctrination, cartoons in Full Metal Jacket, pop culture as a form of indoctrination, Is Full Metal Jacket an anti-war movie, Full Metal Jackets cult following in the USMC, the USMC as a cult, the Joker character as a stand-in for Daniel Ellsberg, co-opting the anti-war movement


Music by: Keith Allen Dennis

https://keithallendennis.bandcamp.com/


Additional Music by: The Octopus

https://www.amazon.com/Supernatural-Alliance-Octopus/dp/B0794L5SMZ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=463TJEZ9DGDU&keywords=the+octopus+supernatural+alliance&qid=1703298274&s=music&sprefix=the+octopus+supernatural+alliance%2Cpopular%2C110&sr=1-1

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