>>128548I don't know where you people keep getting that the book was overtly political or something, to me it felt more like a fictional soldier's memoir (especially when considering that heinlein was a vet) and the book was mostly impartial to the authoritarian setting, I guess Rico kept believing the system even after witnessing the horrors of war but it wasn't really celebrated by the author
I'm thinking both you and Verhoeven got baited by the book by projecting your fantasies and insecurities on it respectively