Starship Troopers Effective Satire Discourse - Comment #6,264,627

Yeah, it's filmed like it's a propaganda movie. I read the thread of the guy ranting about how it fails as a satire because it makes the military look beautiful and heroic and the government clean and justified and I'm sitting here thinking "True bro, that's exactly what a propaganda movie would show"

That's the biggest thing I think people miss. You should not be taking this film at its face value; you should go into this movie expecting a sci-fi/alternate reality propaganda film, because that's what the movie is designed to be. The movie itself is a sarcastic read of its own setting. It does have anti-fascist points, but it's not going to explicitly tell you that.

Part of the reason Nazi Germany still has this mythos of "pure military prowess" or "quality Deutsche engineering" is because of the propaganda series Die Deutsche Wochenschau (literally The German Weekly Review). It was presented as simply news, and it also makes up a significant portion of our video records of the Nazi era. The thing is, it was propaganda designed to push the German population further into supporting the war, by showing the greatness of the Wehrmacht, or the massive German industries pushing the war effort, or the glorious victories they were achieving (even in the later part of the war).

If you consume propaganda without critical thinking, you will be fooled by it. Nobody is immune to propaganda; you can only resist it by being aware of it and realizing its biases.

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