Men of Irony at West Point. Space Force, Star Ship Troopers etc
I was at a big cinema in New York when Starship Troopers came out. I had read the book, but my enjoyment of Heinlein does not extend to supporting his eccentric Libertarian-neoLiberal Politics. Musk to the Max but better thought out! :)
Into the cinema trooped serried ranks of West Point Cadets, whose uniforms did indeed foretell Verhoeven's "Future Space Force" couture. For them, irony was what they used to make in Pittsburgh so they whooped, hollered and cheered uncritically through all his fascistic parodies. In retrospect, I can see how trump happened!