From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10892 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Saturday, March 11 2023 Volume 14 : Number 10892 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [video] Dead Simple Trick Brings Any Battery Back To Life ["Battery Back ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2023 16:57:23 +0100 From: "Battery Back to Life" Subject: [video] Dead Simple Trick Brings Any Battery Back To Life [video] Dead Simple Trick Brings Any Battery Back To Life http://batterycourse.shop/wlP32iFHaJB8lpPe5GaIPbd7zRVyxKRHxD_fkWqDRyGbcRvFYw http://batterycourse.shop/6BQYKpBrWmxg7gbxELqX-6hqC_oeFXOIYDSg4KwfPeJkmuEW4g The setting of the book is presented by Heinlein as utopian; its leaders are shown as good and wise, and the population as free and prosperous. Slusser wrote in 1987 that Starship Troopers depicts a world that is "hell for human beings", but nonetheless celebrates the ideology of its fictional society. The rulers are claimed to be the best in history, because they understand that human nature is to fight for power through the use of force. The suggestion of utopia is not explored in depth, as the lives of those outside the military are not shown in any detail. The novel suggests that the militarist philosophy espoused by many of the characters has a mathematical backing, though reviewers have commented that Heinlein does not present any basis for this. Writers such as Farmer, Robert A. W. Lowndes, and Michael Moorcock have criticized the novel for being a hypothetical utopia, in the sense that while Heinlein's ideas sound plausible, they have never been put to the test. Moorcock wrote an essay entitled "Starship Stormtroopers" in which he attacked Heinlein and other writers over similar "Utopian fiction". Lowndes accused Heinlein of using straw man arguments, "countering ingenuous half-truths with brilliant half-truths". Lowndes further argued that the Terran Federation could never be as idealistic as Heinlein portrays it to be because he never properly addressed "whether or not have at least as full a measure of civil redress against official injustice as we have today". Farmer agreed, arguing that a "world ruled by veterans would be as mismanaged, graft-ridden, and insane as one ruled by men who had never gotten near the odor of blood and guts ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #10892 ***********************************************