▲ 313 ▼ Shots fired...good thing Storm Troppers can't hit anything (i.imgflip.com) submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by negativenull@piefed.world [M] to c/tenforward@lemmy.world 136 comments fedilink hide all child comments Edit: this is meant to be a shitpost. I don't care about your favorite series/universe. You do you.
[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 child) I have a hard time getting a read on Heinlein because he also wrote Stranger in a Strange Land which is as left as Starship Troopers is right. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] SippyCup@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago (1 child) As I understand he wrote SiaSL to be deliberately provocative. It read to me as if he was just dreaming up the most bizarrely counter culture things he could think of and mushing them together. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago* Stranger was considerably more thoughtful and deliberate than you've described, but even still how is that different than Starship Troopers? Heinlein used his novels to explore worldviews, not really to endorse them. If you start trying to pin down his sincere beliefs with any one book, you're pretty quickly going to run into inconsistencies with the others. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] SippyCup@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago (1 child) As I understand he wrote SiaSL to be deliberately provocative. It read to me as if he was just dreaming up the most bizarrely counter culture things he could think of and mushing them together. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago* Stranger was considerably more thoughtful and deliberate than you've described, but even still how is that different than Starship Troopers? Heinlein used his novels to explore worldviews, not really to endorse them. If you start trying to pin down his sincere beliefs with any one book, you're pretty quickly going to run into inconsistencies with the others. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago* Stranger was considerably more thoughtful and deliberate than you've described, but even still how is that different than Starship Troopers? Heinlein used his novels to explore worldviews, not really to endorse them. If you start trying to pin down his sincere beliefs with any one book, you're pretty quickly going to run into inconsistencies with the others. permalink fedilink source parent
