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Starship troopers was made by the same guy who made RoboCop another movie whose message goes over people's heads. RoboCop is about privatization, police militarization, lack of government oversight, and corporate greed.
I'm pretty sure most people think robocop or starship troopers is fantasy and as removed from their reality as lord of the ring for example.
A feature of indoctrination is that you don't see it on yourself.
LOTR is absolutely political IMO.
Yes, but not as directly as sci-fi can be. We won't ally with elves to fight orcs in the foreseeable future. We won't talk to ents or ask a wizard for help. Fantasy is metaphorical in essence. Sci-fi is descriptive, realistic. Yet people still treat it as fantasy.
Mhh... maybe not elves, but there is a current war that is often compared to fighting against orcs & Mordor. Although, I do not think dehumanizing even Russian soldiers is a good idea.
Yes, but nobody in the US will imagine the right is the orcs.
oh those people. That's maybe a bit harsh, even to orcs - although maybe not entirely inaccurate as orcs are basically the offspring of elves tortured for eternity. And I guess the political right often appears full of inner conflicts and contradictions, and trying to blame others for feeling miserable as a result of the weird values they pretend to follow.