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To: narses

“Heinlein was equally beloved in military circles, especially for his book Starship Troopers (1959), a gung-ho shout-out for organized belligerence as the key to human survival. A thoroughly authoritarian book...”

There’s nothing authoritarian about the book. I blame pseudojournalists who use Cliff notes for this error.


6 posted on 11/18/2018 6:32:26 PM PST by Bogey78O (So far so good.)
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To: Bogey78O

https://youtu.be/kVpYvV0O7uI


9 posted on 11/18/2018 6:34:32 PM PST by Bogey78O (So far so good.)
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To: Bogey78O

Did you even read Starship Troopers? It was a typical Heinlein novel of his middle years that explored a segment of a speculative future society.

It is based upon the middle America values of Missouri and teaches responsibility for ones actions as well as the need for sacrifice in times when the homeland is in peril.

No matter what you soy boys think of it, this is a truer objective than the crazy years (also Heinlein predicted) that you seem to treasure.

The movies were entirely crap and did not, in the least sense, represent what the book was about.


29 posted on 11/18/2018 7:06:21 PM PST by wjr123
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To: Bogey78O

Yeah. I read it, and wondered what they read.


65 posted on 11/18/2018 11:39:30 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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