Broadening someone's sci-fi horizons

[Sigtrygg]

I agree, in the book's history lessons we learn the Earth was taken over by a globalist group of experts - scientists and the like. Their society was a lot more fascist than the veteran citizenship that overthrew them and ruled at the time of book.

 

[Condottiere]

As I recall, the production bought the rights to Starship Troopers as a preemptive move, since the original concept had similarities.

Much as the producers of The Karate Kid bought the rights of the DeeCee character, despite being universes apart.

 

[actionman]

scientists and the like

Totally not financiers or anything.

 

[actionman]

Verhoeven wasn't wrong that a society without safeguards, tends towards authoritarianism and fascism.

Yes he was. Verhoeven couldn't escape his ideological bias even if it drove him 1000 miles from home and left him in a forest. Fascism isn't some nebulous force like Sauron's malignant will inhabiting the One Ring, it's a very particular political and economic structure that has to be carefully assembled, and it requires a lot of force to keep it together. Without safeguards society turns into corrupt anarcho-tyranny, that's what it turns into.

Btw, it's pointless to argue with me about this, since I refuse to accept most of the literature written about it as legitimate. The entire topic of fascism has been so politically charged for so long that I consider most resources written about it to be propaganda of one type or another. It's also an argument that doesn't have a place on this forum.

 

[Endie]

Yes he was. Verhoeven couldn't escape his ideological bias even if it drove him 1000 miles from home and left him in a forest. Fascism isn't some nebulous force like Sauron's malignant will inhabiting the One Ring, it's a very particular political and economic structure that has to be carefully assembled, and it requires a lot of force to keep it together. Without safeguards society turns into corrupt anarcho-tyranny, that's what it turns into.

Btw, it's pointless to argue with me about this, since I refuse to accept most of the literature written about it as legitimate. The entire topic of fascism has been so politically charged for so long that I consider most resources written about it to be propaganda of one type or another. It's also an argument that doesn't have a place on this forum.

It's well known that, in today's society, everyone you don't like is literally Hitler.

 

[actionman]

everyone you don't like is literally Hitler.

It's like in the Matrix, where instead of getting possessed and turning into Agent Smith, people disagree and get possessed and turn into literally Hitler.

 

[Condottiere]

Going by the playbook, we do know who the current iteration is.