• EugeneDebs [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    This is because irony, entertaining as it is, serves an exclusively negative function. It's critical and destructive, a ground-clearing.

    • David Foster Wallace, E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction

    An absolutely valid critique of Starship Troopers; while it does a superb job of ripping apart fascist/militaristic ideology, it ultimately offers no positive alternative or solution.