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Alien: Prequelification
Ozymandias:
It's tough to call it a butchery when the intent was never to do it justice to begin with.
It would be like claiming the original Casino Royale movie butchered Fleming, certainly being accurate to Fleming was never its course.
Alex C:
Yeah, earlier I was merely objecting to the comparison because I doubt that Scott would ever crap on The Forever War's ideas with such certainty of purpose.
Kugai:
--- Quote from: a pack of wolves on 29 Apr 2010, 03:51 ---You can't forgive a man for making an anti-war film instead of a pro-war film that argues military dictatorships are a good idea, and having no respect for a book that suggests such a horrible thing?
--- End quote ---
Have you read Starship Troopers?
Alex C:
Well, limiting suffrage to people who accept the military as legitimate and OK to participate in is a pretty solid way to cut dissent off at the knees, isn't it? I mean, Heinlein's idealized version is all noble meritocracy and smooth sailing but that's because you know, it's just a book. In practice it'd have some pretty shitty snags in the line to contend with. I mean, really, what the hell are you supposed to do if you don't agree with what the military is doing in Starship Troopers? You can't vote if you're currently earning citizenship in the military and you can't vote if you haven't already been in. It'd be like if politicians didn't have to give a crap what many of us think about the Iraq war unless we had all done time in the military or if all of us who were against it agreed to go fight over there for two years and come back AND only then get to vote. :roll: Best case scenario with a misbehaving government is that you already have served militarily during a time where they're not doing anything you object to (if that's possible). If you come of age when the military is running the ship into the ground you're just SOL. Go roll up your sleeves and follow orders until you have the right to say something about it. Fantastic.
KvP:
Since we've already taken the plunge, I'd like to point out that from a post-structuralist perspective, requiring military service in order to attain citizenship is sort of unnecessary, given that primary schools do most of the heavy lifting in the social learning department. Schools are designed like prisons, administration is a microcosm of political systems, etc. etc.
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