Comment on ICE Supreme Commander spotted in Minneapolis
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 9 hours agoStarship Troopers was a warning.
Comment on ICE Supreme Commander spotted in Minneapolis
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 9 hours agoStarship Troopers was a warning.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
The movie was. The book was sympathetic.
FatCrab@slrpnk.net 7 hours ago
It really wasn’t. Heinlein did not write Starship Troopers as an aspirational piece of milscifi and, while he definitely had some questionable politics, my understanding is that he was effectively thinking aloud as he wrote the book.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
It’s hard to tell where his beliefs end and pondering began honestly. I’ve read a few of his works and it is strongly bent toward the every man trope if I remember right. Of how an individual needs to be skilled in most areas, self actualizing, independent. Reads like a conservative libertarian view to me honestly. Add in Starship Troopers itself really plays that strong and talks about military might makes right, it’s hard not to see it as positive toward warfare.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Read a lot of Heinlein, but not that one. Are you sure it wasn’t satire?
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
It is a bit complicated. AH would have been a ww2 vet and I am not sure i would say is pro nazi, but he is rather right leaning and glorifying of war in his ways (he did miss out on combat and it seems to be resentful in a way).
The book is not satirical.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 hour ago
Heinlein was a Cold Warrior who hated commies. I think that is the most important lens you need to see his work through.
He got injured before he saw combat and had a Long convalescent period, so there definitely is a bit of a chip on his shoulder with respect to honor cultures and willingness to fight.
I think he was also gender queer in some deep way. You don’t accidentally write a novel about an older writer who, through an absurd sequence of events, gets his brain transplanted into the body of an extremely attractive younger woman. There is a lot of criticism about his recurrent “Heinlein heroine”, and I think she might actually be a self insert.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 hours ago
My read from the books I’ve read, he’s a conservative libertarian, he didn’t seem to like organized religion but believe in religion and spirituality.