I heard again the old saying that we realise as we get older and wiser what we missed knowing when we were young. He was talking about the digital blood festival that is Starship Troopers and the fact that the people in it live in a fascist state.
I don’t know but I was always surrounded by older, wiser adults in fact one teacher at school was rabid in his anti-communism and we were introduced to all kinds of thoughts by the age of 11. I do recall never understanding why the Germans never won in the war films or the native Americans were always losing. I did realise the frontier man was a fiction by the time I was 14. But now I look back there are only a few things that have changed in my thoughts and I think I know why.
Many of those adults were the writers who wrote in English, French, Russian and American English and I read books from my mother’s library and was taught how people were in revolutions, how people suffered, how monarchs really were, how funny societies could be, how cruel people could be, how chance could ruin a life.
Why wait for your own experience when you have all these adult experiences to share?