It ain’t about balls.
It is about a lot of things.
…a way out of pure economic hardship (caused by the very corporations whom the military actually serve), towards college, all the way down to the subsection who simply want to kill their fellow man.
Your post is disingenuous.
It reads like a cult pamphlet.
You’re forgetting about the ‘risking life and limb’ part. That’s pretty fucking significant. Soldiers should be rewarded for honorable service.
No, the military does not serve corporations, they serve the state, which happens to be infested with shisters. If citizenship was locked behind service that would drain the swamp realllll quick.
America is the richest country on the planet. We don’t have a money problem. We have a management problem. Ignorant and selfish citizenry and an irresponsible ruling class leading us to disaster.
Paul Verhoven’s movie is satire, but Heinlein swung bigly toward pretty typical nationalism and fearmongering in the 60’s. Huge Barry Goldwater stan, generally afraid of other races. Seeped into his work pretty notably.
The thing that’s weird about Heinlein to me is that he’s not really a big thinker, yet he gets philosophed about like he’s John Locke. This was a dude who saw reality as an extension of himself, therefore if it kinda made sense to him, than that was the world. If he were alive today he’d be right up front going apeshit about immigrants and the gay agenda and so forth because he didn’t like the other.
I always just thought of Wohl as that guy who did tons of illegal shit trying to get out of it by putting Trumps small cheeto in his mouth daily.
He tried to go all Project Verafake and help cheetolini and instead before it even goes live to the gullible masses its already debunked… WONT STOP Truendymion and the rest of his funky bunch from spamming our feed with this crap and eating it up…
HIS FUCKING MOM LOL… Fucking loser…
Veterans should definitely be rewarded. You should not be punished for not serving tho, there are plenty of ways to support your country without putting your life on the line.
Isn’t the life for everyone anyway.
Heinlein was pretty sexually open-minded. So I wouldn’t put that on him.
Starship Troopers is a fun read, but it’s written at a middle school level and you’d need to have pretty limited exposure to ideas to want to base your world view on it.
Yes, but someone who’s willing to die for his country puts social responsibility above personal advantage. BTW about 80% of the jobs in the military are non-combat occupations.
I highly suggest you dig deeper…
Not my first rodeo with Heinlein, or literary analysis of Heinlein.
If you read more of his work I don’t think you’d recommend him as anyone’s Svengali.
I’ve read his other work. He’s a giant among men along with Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke.
So putting your life on the line is irrelevant.
How much of his other work though?
I mean, I love the guy, but have you READ I Shall Fear No Evil?
I’ve read Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, Cat Who Walks Through Walls. Haven’t read that one.
I can’t recommend it, unless you really want to hate read something and diminish your opinion of the author.
Do read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Similar civic thought experiment to Starship Troopers with different conclusions.
I’ll get back to you on that. In the meantime I’ll leave you with this:
There is an old song which asserts that “the best things in life are free”. Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought on the decadence and collapse of the democracies of the twentieth century; those noble experiments failed because the people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted… and get it, without toil, without sweat, without tears. … I fancy that the poet who wrote that song meant to imply that the best things in life must be purchased other than with money — which is true — just as the literal meaning of his words is false. The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion . . . and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself — ultimate cost for perfect value."
The Best Things in Life are Free isn’t talking about material things, it’s about friends and family and the every day things like sunshine and the bright moon in the sky.
Read the bolded part lol
I did. That’s not what that song is about.
Edit: Well I mean I guess it can mean that to you if you want to interpret it that way.
I mean, they repeat and vote for memes, so yeah they’ve got that going for them. Think tank-tested empty phrases that mean absolutely nothing but let you imagine they mean something useful. It’s really shitty.
Heinlein was a prolific writer of some terrible novels. It’s real real easy to have your characters trumpet wonderful ideas that vanquish straw men. Shallow triumphant intellectualism should be scary when read in novels.
Yes, but someone who’s willing to die for his country puts social responsibility above personal advantage. BTW about 80% of the jobs in the military are non-combat occupations.
? How about living for your country? What the fuck do we have to fight against at this point? I want people in labs researching how we as a species can survive. We don’t have time to dick around shooting people who are the wrong color or religion.
No, the military does not serve corporations, they serve the state, which happens to be infested with shisters. If citizenship was locked behind service that would drain the swamp realllll quick.
Right-wing think tanks came up the empty phrase “drain the swamp”. It tested well. Congrats, corporations own your brain.
1.A more informed class of voters. Because Citizenship is a privilege, not a right, the competency tests help weed out the complete idiots and morons. Also, if you have to work for the right to vote, you will be more likely to study the candidates in order to use your vote better.
How about you can only vote if you graduate then? Much more informed class of voters, weeding out morons.
But then again, uneducated chuckleheads are a key voting bloc for the people currently in power, so I can’t see ® getting behind education.
I’m sure you’re not meaning to come across as condescending, but this statement rubs me the wrong way. There are many reasons people don’t graduate as I’m sure you are well aware of. Graduation doesn’t equate to intelligence.