Starship Troopers is actually nothing like Hackers? Verhoeven's Troopers is a straight-up satire of the USA's industrial-military complex.

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Content is an intentionally chosen word in order to make "feeding from the corporate trough" not seem so repulsive.

It isn't, but its often been the only reason that a species didn't go extinct.

Pandas being one of those species. I feel as if pandas would go extinct if zoos weren't there.

technically panda's cuteness is the reason why it hasn't really gotten extinct. Dogs/Cats have also mastered the cuteness stat. I wonder if for animals, evolution might now lean towards cuteness.

I am also thinking what counts as cute in the first place? Is there any scientific consensus around cuteness that animals can develop?

No, the Democrats would do it precisely because of cynical human interest (they are like that). Donald Trump Republicans invading a Western nation plays right into their hands. They may as well just hand Gavin Newsom the next election. The overwhelming majority of US citizens do not approve of USA invading Greenland.

The lazy are also most likely to push back against the process, even though they're the ones who can most benefit.

Peanuts is also a product of Jazz-era America (50's & early 60's). Joe Cool is a beatnik, not a hippie or a rocker. So a lot of that context & content gets lost as the decades go by.

Case in point being the name Peanuts itself, which even to me as an elder Millenial was obscure. No one actually said Peanuts, always Charlie Brown.

taking away our right to privacy sounds like a good way to get a lot more of what you say you dont want!

Most people are very selfish when it suits them, and most people would completely deny that selfishness as being not part of their "morality."

The problem with the French revolution was that the radicals moved too far, too fast, in the social reform. Their economics werent the issue, it was the total disregard for any religious or traditional culture and the factionalism that doomed the revolutionaries.