You start to wonder: Are Johnny and his friends growing up in some long-established totalitarian uber-regime? All that military drapery makes you doubt that anything was peaceful, though.
In that same great Empire interview, Verhoeven said that the weird nonchalance of the scene was part of the subtext.
Team chatterbox Kitten Matt Levin walks into the group shower, clearly the sarcastic one.
Sure, RoboCop needs to be watched just once as a completely sincere Christ story, with all the blood-bucket gore of an old-school Passion play.