I havent read starship troopers... but if anything i think the future would be more like 1984 by george orwell
Of course there were those who would try. There was even one in the book who joined the army just so he could go into politics, but got kicked out and ruined any chance at a political life.Karbin wrote:
Lets not forget, that in the book, there had been a large scale war that devastated the northern hemisphere. Use of WMD's of all kinds was common.
Add a peace treaty the didn't cover POW's.
"The best estimates place the number around sixty-five thousand"
What happened, on Heinlein's earth, was a solder's revolt.
That came home to a public the didn't care, didn't want to know and politicians that didn't see them as a voting block to care about.
The returned solder's took up politics' and changed the system.
Through service, you earned the right to have a say.
As well, those that had a say, had a common standard to judge each other by.
"You have proved you can think of something other then for yourself".
A nice idea but, I think you'd STILL get twits joining up for two years just to get some power to throw around.
In my opinion, the major purpose of the 'earn the vote' system is to make people more proud- to try to make people take a closer look and take voting more seriously. Second, since most of the masses would be unable (well, unwilling- they didn't want to put forth the effort to earn it) to vote, the candidates would have to target their campaigns differently, hopefully edging away from the lowest-common-denominator politics seen in the US today.
Because you haven't read Starship Troopers?Little BaBy JESUS wrote:
I havent read starship troopers... but if anything i think the future would be more like 1984 by george orwell