Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on May 25, 2017 1:44:44 GMT
Jean Rasczak: This year in history, we talked about the failure of democracy, how the social scientists of the 21st Century brought our world to the brink of chaos. We talked about the veterans, how they took control and imposed the stability that has lasted for generations since. We talked about the rights and privileges between those who served in the armed forces and those who haven’t, therefore called citizens and civilians. [to a student] You. Why are only citizens allowed to vote?
Student: It’s a reward. Something the federation gives you for doing federal service.
Jean Rasczak: No. Something given has no basis in value. When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you’re using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.
In an interview for The Making of Starship Troopers, Paul Verhoeven commented:
“So I think the essence of my interest in this so-called fascism of Heinlein’s, or pseudo-fascism, the real reason I wanted to transfer that to film was that at this moment there are voices in the United States that would actually embrace this form of policy. Which is another reason I wanted to do this film. To carry over the fascist framework from the book to the movie. It’s a metaphor, you see—for that part of the American society which would like to have something like the government portrayed in Starship Troopers in power in the United States today.
It would also be interesting. I felt, to have the film of Starship Troopers make this statement: “This quasi-fascist society we’re showing you works. On a certain level, anyway.”
Student: It’s a reward. Something the federation gives you for doing federal service.
Jean Rasczak: No. Something given has no basis in value. When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you’re using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.
In an interview for The Making of Starship Troopers, Paul Verhoeven commented:
“So I think the essence of my interest in this so-called fascism of Heinlein’s, or pseudo-fascism, the real reason I wanted to transfer that to film was that at this moment there are voices in the United States that would actually embrace this form of policy. Which is another reason I wanted to do this film. To carry over the fascist framework from the book to the movie. It’s a metaphor, you see—for that part of the American society which would like to have something like the government portrayed in Starship Troopers in power in the United States today.
It would also be interesting. I felt, to have the film of Starship Troopers make this statement: “This quasi-fascist society we’re showing you works. On a certain level, anyway.”