Top Gun was that movie for fighter pilots. Unfortunately, fighter pilots and their commanders took it to another level and were disciplined for insulting women officers at a convention.
Now we have a former ship's XO, who seems to have been inspired by the XO in Under Siege. (I, myself, would not have found the XO in Under Siege to be inspiring.) He has lost his command because his fantasy of being a comedian resulted in videos that many people find offensive.
But movie madness is not the only problem here. People who are in tight knit groups often only listen to other people in that group. By listening to only the people in their group, they miss the fact that the beliefs of their larger society have changed.
This problem is not just a military problem. Many leaders in other professions become convinced that they have the only acceptable world view because everyone around them agrees with them.
ALL of us, MUST spend some time listening to people who disagree with us. Otherwise we run the risk of failing to learn that the world has become a different place while we were not paying attention.
BTW, the lawyer movies I love are Inherit the Wind and To Kill a Mockingbird. (It should be noted that the lawyers I admire in these movies lost their cases.) I also love the Adventures of Robin Hood.
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