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calamityjanitor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I was so bewildered reading the novel. I had heard he wrote it as a pro military propaganda piece, but I couldn’t help but see it as satire.

They are kitted out in mech suits, making them seem more machine than man, put into drop pods that are fired onto the planet like bullets out a gun. In the pod they are isolated from their comrades, isolated from their humanity, literally turned into pieces of a weapon.

Then they land on the alien planet to perform a terrorist attack on a civilian city. And this book is meant to be pro war?

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Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
You remind of a story from the WW2 era.

A German intellectual cuts out in 1935 and comes to America. He’s kinda famous, so he gets a newspaper interview. He proudly proclaims that he considers himself a pacifist.

A letter to the editor points out that it’s easy to call yourself a pacifist when you’ve got an ocean between you and the war.

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