Service, Suffrage, and Starship Troopers

This is not a response to the midterm election, the video was recorded last week. Let’s take a look at this voting idea in the context of that old favorite, Starship Troopers. A story that has a lot to say on the matter, sometimes by its silence. Is universal suffrage viable long-term? Are there better alternatives? Is asking what system is best the wrong question? It's also an anniversary video of sorts. Starship Troopers was first published, in serialized form, in the October/November 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. And so decades of argument was born. 🔹 Patreon | patreon.com/FeralHistorian 🔹 Ko-Fi | ko-fi.com/feralhistorian 🔹 and Merch! | feral-shop.fourthwall.com 🔹 Oh, and book 2 of Stellar Drift is out. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GTVXK4CN 00:00 Intro 00:53 Rights and the Vote 03:40 The Liberal Order 06:21 Flawed Alternatives 07:41 Conspiracy Theories 11:35 Systems and Culture