Read that book a second time. I read it the first time as someone who was shortly to become a right wing dunce and embraced the easy fascism to a terrifying degree that makes me wonder about myself even more than my cringy reaction to Atlas Shrugged (it's seriously a more dangerous book under the right circumstances) and now it's a morally and politically challenging book that I didn't think would challenge me as it has even as I am today. Starship Troopers is NOT a book that you should read only once. It says a lot of things, it says them in sequence, and it says them in a way that is meant to exercise the mind rather than educate it. But it also does not pull its punches while attacking your notions. Reread it. Seriously.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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