Kennedy era counter-insurgency (with the idea of "winning hearts and minds" by going native like the green berets) was also part of the mix, I think. It's a very Cold War book, although prophetic of the war on terror.
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Corey Doctorow got ya covered bābēhttps://twitter.com/C_Trombley1/status/1199586228397625349?s=20 …
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given how unsympathetically the characters were portrayed (a perennial issue with the writing also tho), it's practically an absurdist critique of the scientism and human perfectibility a lot of other writers accepted uncritically
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