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Saw this, and a couple other similarly themed t-shirts and couldn’t help myself.
Starship Troopers is one of those rare books that gets the ol’ wheels turning. “Atlas Shrugged” was probably the one book that changed my way of thinking about a lot of things, but Troopers specifically gave me some thoughts about the nature of duty and obligation that I’d never really explored. (And for the love of Crom, read the book rather than see the movies.) It’s a book that clearly is more geared towards military folks, but it’s explorations about the nature of individual duties to the state, the states duties to the individual, and that sort of thing were quite interesting. It’s been labelled as fascist or racist, but that’s usually by people who think everyone without a certain melanin count is automatically a racist.
This being a college town, I look forward to seeing if anyone gets the reference.
I love how they label it racist when the protagonist is a South American.
From Buenos Aires but is actually Filipino since he speaks tagalog.
Commander:
I never could understand why they chose someone who either didn’t understand or hated the book to produce the film.
Probably an example of snowflakeism in action!
When the film was made it had nothing at all to do with the Heinlein book, but a unrelated script called ‘Bug Hunt at Outpost Nine’, by Edward Neumeier. At the start of filming they some how got hold of the film licensed of the name ‘Heinlein’s Starship Troopers’.
It had nothing at all – other than a few names used – to do with the book. If they had not got the licensed for the name the film would still have been made.
Starship Troopers was one of those novels that got me thinking about morals and duty. It is the only work of fiction that is required reading at Annapolis. While a little dated, Starship Troopers is am amazing book. Then they had to make that movie. So high was the expectation, so low was the let down.
Now I’m going to have to read it. My best friend from long ago – deceased for more than 10 years now – constantly pushed for me to read it. Didn’t have the time then, but now I have to do it – Thanks!
By the way, I recognized the link in your previous post to Crazy
Eddie even before I opened it. I almost had a seizure hearing it. Those commercials were so frequent and annoying back in the 80’s that people actually broke their TVs by throwing things at them. I particularly remember the ‘Christmas sale in August”. LOL! You would frequently hear two and possible three during each commercial break.
I lived only a few blocks from the original store.
I teach chemistry at a community college, and two years ago, I got the chance to teach Starship Troopers as a portion of a honors college class. One of my assignments was to listen to General McArthur’s Duty Honor Country speech at West Point. I hope some of the students got a chance to look at the world a little differently.