Starship Troopers (was RE: Mission to Mars)

In message <OFA52731C8.6DDDB187-ON862568A4.00704A63@uneb.edu>
> devans@uneb.edu writes:

Liberal and conservative (small "l", small "c") mean what they
mean. Liberal means open-minded and unprejudiced. Conservative
means ill-disposed to change and non-extremist. I, personally, am
quite happy to be both. If you meet any radical conservatives or liberal
bigots be sure you tell them what oxymorons they are.

Vocal SF fans are often conservative-with-a-small-"c"... at least
about SF, unwilling to tolerate any variation of the text of a book required
during adaption into another medium.

I remain quite sure that a literal page-for-page transposition of
Starship Troopers onto film would a) stink and b) tank, and Hollywood is not a
charity.

Hollywood is "Liberal" because the marketplace for film dictates this. The
game market is, I think, equally obliged to be "Liberal". For an example, look
at the background material to
"Crimson Skies"... set in a non-racist, non-sexist 1930's USA.
They don't offend people because it would cost them sales. Good, conservative,
business sense.

On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 03:05:38 GMT, db-ft@westmore.demon.co.uk (David
Brewer) wrote:

> Liberal and conservative (small "l", small "c") mean what they

Quite true. This is the interesting thing about current politics. Most people
are NOT conservative or liberal but a mix of both. They fall on a scale, yet
political parties tend to be polarized.

Take the New Democratic Party in Canada. They are pro labour union, but anti
military and socially liberal. Most of the people who vote for them are in
labour unions. However, those very same people are usually socially
conservative. So, right off the party has this weird duality that doesn't jive
with some of their more arduent supporters.