Leftists are literal bug defenders
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After seeing the movie first I always interpreted the book as in line with the movie narrative. Johnny Rico is clearly beat down in boot camp and at one point admits to like routine hypnosis as part of his “battle readiness”. The dudes family is like consumed by the military industrial complex and the hypnosis is a bizarre inclusion in like a supposed utopia. Apparently Heinleins like later writings support the theory that he was being sincere with Starship Troopers, but there’s no way he believed that shit AND wrote stranger in a strange land at the same time.
This is an asinine take, the "hypnosis" is how they were given the battle plan and how they checked for mental illness.
In the opening of the book they made a guy sit out of the battle for a slight fever. Definitely the actions of hypnotized fanatics.