you heard it guys: Movies, videogames and internet porn! before all of that the world was much more peaceful... right?

16 years later, this is getting recommended in my feed. The algorithm is crazy lol

5:16 A lot of young soldiers who fought in Vietnam were usually well brought up and joined or were drafted straight out of College. He describes them as an "Innocent generation who lost that innocence in the jungles of Vietnam". The goes on to blame "Generation Kill" on violent video games, movies, and a sex scandal. Not the lack of parenting. Generation Kill: What happens when those who've grown up on Hollywood war movies and graphic video games are sent to the front line? The same thing that happens to EVERY generation that goes to war. Horrific things that no game or film can prepare you for.

You can find videos of Vietname troops saying similar things, and even interviews from soldiers in WW2. This is no different than what war has always been.

"America is the most divided it's been since the vietnam war" oh buddy if you could see how things now.

After 5 years of youtube sporadically recommending me this i've decided to watch it.

Damn....so THAT's why gladiatorial combat was so big back in the days of ancient Rome - too much Playstation and gangsta rap....right? * facepalm* Humans are bloodthirsty, period. It's hardwired to our DNA and needs no high tech digital wizardry to bring it out in the open.

The song is Angel of Death by Slayer.

and the next generation has access to detailed combat footage and even less censorship then we have never seen before

As a member of this generation (not a soldier, though), I found that this story about us being "pre-jaded" has the ring of truth. These soldiers seem entirely typical of my generation, both the good and the bad, and it was interesting to hear them talk honestly about their experience.

Thank Zeus someone made this video, because men totally didn't kill each other before video games, rap, rock music, and internet porn!

"War itself is heavy metal, yes" What a god damn badass lol

Driving into combat listening to Slayer has gotta be an ecstasy

It's not the quantity of violence that has changed, but part of the ongoing cultural shift in the quality of the human experience of violence and the aesthetic around it. It's a change to human psychology where murder is somewhat more realistically and continuously shown in media, and it means the experience of killing is and being killed can no longer be quite the same.

I grew up playing violent video games, listened to rap and heavy metal and watched platoon kid. I never killed anyone, and i never want to kill anyone.

WW2 was because of internet porn. You know it and I know it.

You also have to realize this guy was here for 18 months from what i heard, he just picked parts that he wanted to portray in this video, he didnt put in parts that contradict his story. Also think about it, when you are playing a contact sport like rugby football or hockey, everyone listens to music to pump them up cause if you go in to a game not pumped up you are basically screwed this is just like a war, if you arent pumped up you are screwed.

In war...You want the craziest dudes on your side...end of discussion..

I honestly think this generation will be less violent, seeing as their only real exposure to violence being on a screen, rather than in real life

Vietnam: music good Iraq: music bad Journeymen: trash propaganda

When this first came out I thought it was poignant. Now it just seems like utter shite.

A painter blames war on Violent Video Games and Internet Porn. Pretty sure there was another painter that started a fairly big war.

WAR: People killing each other but don't know each other for people that know each other but don't kill each other.

Wow this is quite inaccurate....old people blaming technology for violence

That would be kinda awesome to roll down a street in a tank listening to Slayer

This show was honestly pretty accurate with how we talk to each other in the Marines

every generation thinks the current one is lost. there have been people like this in every conflict since forever. seems like generation kill is making some sweeping statements and generalisations about a whole generation. some balance and perspective please. lets not forget my lai.

urban american is a warzones lol gotta love the 90s

i love how theyre favorite CD is from my first concert ozzfest.

"The pioneers of a warless world are the young men who refuse military service." - Albert Einstein

loved the slayer riffs throughout the video

What was the Nazi's ultra violent video game of choice?

19 U.S. male here. Black Hawk Down remains one of my favorite movies and at one time I did want to join the military because of that movie alone. I didn't and won't join the forces but this makes me realize what I might have become if I did join. Would I be riding in a tank listening to metal, just looking for someone to kill? Have playing video games, watching these movies, even day dreaming about the zombie apocalypse made me a catalyst to be a solder? Or a "purposed" killer even?

The soldiers probably hate this fucking guy, Evan Wright has respect.

Found this channel today, with Indian Parsis video... Whoever is there behind this channel is really hard working and Consistent. Love the videos loved the channel. Love from INDIA

Fucking right…these guys are amazing and nothing beats A FULL SPECTRUM WARRIOR.

LOVE seeing my fellow tank crewman, Semper fi.

This whole premise is off, violence has been around since the dawn of man. You cant blame video games and rap.

16 years ago he hasn't seen America as polarized and divided as he has seen now. Boy I wonder what he thinks post 2016 election and post 2020.

Raised on Video Games and War Movies. 16 Aug 2007.

What a spectacular view of popular music's influence, both behind and on the battle field. Hope to see the whole thing. Great work. FTW!

I love the Slayer playing in the background.... Raining Blood!!!!!

I think with the digital age it has helped us get the information out on what is really happening and im grateful for that. The sooner people understand wars the sooner they can be stopped. I once was brainwashed into thinking war was glorious and looked fun, and i think many men could relate to having a interest in joining the army when they were young but couldnt justifiy it to themselves. Basically my point is history repeats itself and to point fingers is to point at yourself.

When you look back in history, you will find that no war with religion involved was won by neither attacker or defender (sorry, i'm Danish and in a lack of la-di- dah-words). The Crusades? I mean the old ones!

3:47 first unboxing and review on the internet.

This is little different from soldiers of every major war, war has always been propagandized, every generation thinks it’ll be like a movie, a story, and then wake up to harder truths.

What a video. There are a lot of opinions in this clip. Some did not age well, some are, in hindsight, downright hilarious or have a huge tragicomedy to them. Some are classic "boomer talk", others are spot on. But for me the most astounding thing was: This shit was uploaded in 2007! The war it's talking about was still going on. For years after. And how long ago it is from today, June of 2024. And thinking what I was doing during that time in 2007, or how I perceived the start of the war in Iraq in 2003 and all these things. I always tried to follow the developments in Iraq and Afghanistan over the years and today from where I live (Germany). And all the ramifications and consequences these wars or 9/11 have on the US and the whole world to this day, all the victims, the civilians and soldiers and marines, not just from the US, but many more countries of the coalition. What a time. We were all time witnesses to what today is alsmost long gone history to many. Gives me a very weird bitter-sweet feeling of nostalgia man.

This doesn't show that war in the age of video games is a new phenomenon in itself, but just a new type of it. Taking place during this era is what differentiates this war from other. Given that wars is constant, ongoing and has been on Earth since the beginning of time. What makes this type of warfare unique, other than (but also closely related to) the state-of-the-art weaponry at disposal, is the culture at the time of war. Not the culture of war itself, but the arbitrary symbols that would normally exist outside of the war zone can now, more than ever than before, be massively produced as a very enjoyable commodity to keep the war going on and on.

What a load of nonsense. Talk about clutching at straws to find novelty where there is none.

good point was made here. I noticed this immediately when i was watching the first episode of generation kill. I had just finished watching the Pacific and noticed the completely different attitudes and mindsets the marines from the pacific theater of WWII had from the marines of today's Middle Eastern conflict

Even troops in ancient greece were going into battle with music lmao Where’s the difference?

This was crazy to watch! Wished it was longer to see the dichotomy of our society vs theirs and what contributes to making a soilder

When i lived in brazil is when I realized how different the american culture was by the movies and television programs , music , video games that i was watching. It really was a culture shock.

And that was the peak of US military… that speaks volume for its current state

It's disturbing there are so many in my generation are either sociopaths and/or psychopaths. And history repeats, and the human condition doesn't change.

Music from tanks. Reminds me of Oddball from “Kelly’s Hero’s”. Helicopters played rock music from speakers during attacks

The term "Grasping at straws" comes to mind.

If I was there I would've been blasting Chuck Mangione while looking for insurgents

Scary. Nobody should have to go through such hell. Maybe future wars should be fought by robots. I feel really sorry for many of our world's future children.

When i was over their we listened to slayer alot before missions. Nothing like the smell of gunpowder and HE in the morning

كانت ايام صعبه لنا كعراقيين

This is what my mother thought I'll become by playing crossfire and special force

June 2024, still watching this

6:21 one of the best descriptions I’ve ever heard be allowed into a documentary lmfao

as many have been saying here, theres a massive difference bt real life violence and art the moment that took me from an "innocent" to jaded wasnt seeing sexual violence in film. it was being sexually assaulted and yet the act of committing rape is almost childlike in its impulsivity and self interest all of which is to say that its not rap or video games or porn that brew violent tendencies in people. violence is an innate, repulsive. compelling, and traumatic force within the complex matrix of human nature.

just curious, has anyone that has previously commented actually been in a real combat situation? if no, then I disregard your statement completely. thanks for viewing though

I can't find this documentary anywhere. If anybody knows where I can please comment.

There is no second I envy their work! War is no time a game or a kind of small talk!

Bizarre demonization, this has always had been driven by this 'poetry' and this vision

I am watching this in 2018 and it’s fucking hilarious 😂😂😂😂

When you squeeze the trigger, there's a moment of oh fuck what did I just do... then the "enemy" drops. You know it's another human being but under the circumstances, what you know to be "human": no longer exists. You feel like god. The right god, not the wrong god. It's a brief moment of glory and then everything turns back into hell on earth. Just like any other high.The music just boosts it, gives you good vibes, like any other high. Its all a mind game we play on ourselves.

RIP Evan Wright

They go through extremely tough military training so I think they know what the war is like

No different when I was growing up in the late 70s and 80s except the toys were guns and army men and loads of war movies to condition our young minds into believing that going too war was cool !

4:15 thats the best way to roll

"Hell aint a bad place to be "

0:52-0:56 could be a meme

the music they play in the video is annoying. i would hate to hear that during the invasion.

Fighting round the world! He fights his directors and he fights his fans

This is accidentally a flex of American culture

This is a joke

This must be the 'Heartland values' I keep hearing about.

This is why they never banned violent games.

i did not know they are listening to music while fighting. I tought they were full focused on the action and communication

war criminals

Most of us get pumped with a good fast tune before any physical activity that's normal. There are savages that simply enjoy killing human beings all ages included if circumstances allow. War is for the brave and honorable as well as for the psychopaths!! I said it !!

Holy shit lmao Angel of Death is a perfect war song

Perfect timing

SLAYER!!!!!

bad music if i've ever heard it. how distracting.

Guy looks so so high, what is he even using, definitely some uppers …

@3:25 "I haven't seen the country as polarized as it is now since the time of the Vietnam War" Ha. He hadn't seen anything yet regarding polarization.

OMG. LOL! These guys make it sound like everyone in the U.S. military came from broken homes, and urban gangland. Ask anyone from any country in the military what music they listen to, and you're obviously going to get a variety of answers based on what is popular at the time. What video games and music has to do with serving their country and fighting in a war is nonsense made up by these non-Americans who made this video, just making a very poor attempt to get into the psychology of a nation they obviously don't understand in the slightest, or prefer just to badmouth until we have to come and bail you guys out of trouble. It's also pretty obvious they asked stupid questions and used them for this video. Really?? You talk to soldiers in combat zones and ask them what music they listen too? What kind of answers were you expecting?? If the shit hit the fan while doing your interviews, I bet you would be singing a different tune once you saw first hand how well our military functions. The American Military IS well trained, and educated. When allowed to do the job without politics getting in the way, we will always get it done effectively and efficiently. What I don't see are our so called allies stepping up to the plate often and doing their part. They just sit on their asses while we take care of their problems and then complain or bitch about how things are before, during after the battles are over. Before anyone says a fucking word, they better take a hard look in the mirror and ask themselves, what the fuck have they done lately. If you base your entire opinion of people in the U.S. Military off of this laughable video and what these numb-nut reporters think they know about Americans, then you are dumber than a box of rocks.

Not even a minute in. What garbage.

There has always been music played in battle

This hasn't aged well.

lol this was just like an episode of ancient aliens. you don't understand it so make up a story

It aint nothing like COD is it now!!!

This is just thier interpretation. Remember these are just guys with cameras they aren't the troops themselves.

Somethings will never change.