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Starship Troopers and the Degeneration of Parody

May 23, 2023 Adam Levin Video Leave a comment

This may or not be a fun or well-told game, but there are some deeply sinister undertones to its existence. A silver lining is that the Starship Troopers franchise helps us understand how parody degenerates into promotion of the idea it satirizes.

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