Developmental worldviews—along with history, shadow, feminine and masculine energies, skillful means, love, and truth—are among the foundational elements in the multidisciplinary endeavor at the heart of this newsletter and podcast that we’re calling Healing America’s Narratives.
Recommendation: If you have (or even if you haven’t) seen the movie, Black Hawk Down, consider reading this review by Ronald L. Spiller for the Society for Military History; https://www.smh-hq.org/gazette/blackhawkdown.html#
Something to Consider: The movie—a fictionalized account of actual events—was based on Mark Bowden’s book, Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War. According to Slotkin, in January 2002, George W. Bush and some advisors attended a screening of the movie, and “watched it repeatedly” leading up to the invasion of Iraq and hired the movie’s producer, Jerry Bruckheimer (Bad Boys, Top Gun, Pirates of the Caribbean, CSI-Miami, Training Day, and many more movie and TV productions) as an advisor (Slotkin, 232-33, 239-42). What do you think about that?
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