The worldbuilding in the book is actually fairly sparse. We don’t know enough to say what the society is really like, and one interview suggests Heinlein didn’t get his points across clearly or was revising his work.
Aw man, really? I remember Squad being really promising when it first came out. (Or am I thinking of a different game? I remember it being a modern combat game with VR compatability.)
He doesn't even really succeed in that, since the Citizen Federation in MovieTroopers doesn't even seem all that fascist, as fascists tend to DISCOURAGE people from wanting to know more. They do seem very jingoistic and militarist, but the actual fascism seems to be a bit light.
Except they're following the movie imagery, which had a myriad of Bug castes, specified for various roles. It's the book that had like 3: brain bugs, breeders and workers/warriors, all of whom were TOOL USERS, like us.
Is it hype? I thought it was just differentiation from the standard 4-man horde survival games.
It sounded like they are proud of it. Which, considering console parity these days, they probably are.
If you made a game like this for a team of 128 players instead of 16 and you run it your computer's going to end up resembling Buenos Aires.
Too soon man.
Of course.
Media apparatus that almost exclusively peddles xenophobic and jingoistic drivel obfuscates it's propagandistic nature with the illusion of choice (Would you like to know more?). Obviously, this is more reflective of American media than Nazi Germany.
fascism actively fought illiteracy, built infrastructures and schools everywhere they could, they forcibly took kids from the countryside to put them in school, they promoted every kind of activity, from sports to arts, from literature to painting and funded new movements, when they opened the cinema studios "cinecittà" hollywood shat its pants in terror, the "venezia film festival" was created and promoted (and still exists) by fascists to encourage the art of movies shooting, the "istituto luce" was used only in minor part to produce propaganda, its main use was to film documentaries, of every kind, on every subject, so many and so well done they've been used in schools for decades after. in the '90s they were still being shown.
