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[–] idkmybffjoeysteel@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Couldn't understand what you were referring to so googled Verhoeven nude and discovered a reddit thread informing me that he filmed the shower scene in Starship Troopers while naked in order to get the actors to agree to being naked too

[–] goog@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Now go read George Jackson's Blood In My Eye for a real trip

[–] idkmybffjoeysteel@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not following the connection here either but I did look it up and it looks like a great read, so looking forward to starting it soon.

[–] goog@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

I think his analysis of fascism specifically is a lot more incisive than Verhoeven's. I have this problem of not being able to recommend things to people properly, because it feels like just restating the points made in a text, but in a lamer voice. lukacs-stare The Destruction of Reason is also straight fire. I really don't think the psychological profiling or media analysis of fascist figures or media is helpful. It's obscuring the historical emergence and progression of fascism in its different forms.