These are great days we're living, bros. We are jolly green giants, walking the Earth with guns. These people we wasted here today are the finest human beings we will ever know. After we rotate back to the world, we're gonna miss not having anyone around that's worth shooting.

Full Metal Jacket

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Vietnam War

Speaker

Crazy Earl

Actor

Kieron Jecchinis

Source

Full Metal Jacket

Medium

Film

Genre

War (film) War

Language

English

Time

1987 1980s 20th century

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Full Metal Jacket. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Natant/Harrier Films, 1987.

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The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.

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Tyranny Overton window Freedom of thought

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Source
The Closing of the American Mind
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
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Time
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Bloom, Allan. The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students. Simon & Schuster, 1987, pt. 3.

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So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man
Born in the U. S. A.

Bruce Springsteen

Born in the U.S.A

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Vietnam War
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Bruce Springsteen
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Born in the U.S.A Born in the U.S.A (album)
Medium
Song
Genre
Rock music
Language
English
Time
1984 1980s 20th century
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Citation

Springsteen, Bruce. "Born in the U.S.A." Born in the U.S.A. Columbia Records, 1984.