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When the topic comes up I like to point out Heinlein was writing StrangerInAStrangeLand , a book some called "The Hippie Bible", at the SAME TIME he was writing Starship Troopers. (en.wikipedia.org)
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When the topic comes up I like to point out Heinlein was writing StrangerInAStrangeLand , a book some called "The Hippie Bible", at the SAME TIME he was writing Starship Troopers.

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[–] givesomefucks 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's going on here?

Is this a bot thing that reposts not just the post but all the comments here?

I thought I was going to get to point out again that Starship Troopers was a satire of a military government that while most civilians didn't pick up on, other military officers did.

Stranger had a lot of the same themes, it was just one was written for civilians and one for the military. Heinlein was a military officer and understood how they thing, how they disagreed with a progressive message, and what path to take them down to make them up to the progressive message later.

Note to the mention the always applicable:

If something was progressive 50 years ago and seems conservative now, it's because we achieved progress.

We shot higher than Heinlein predicted, and dude was pretty fucking good at predicting stuff. That's something we should be proud of now, not use to invalidate Heinleins earlier message wholesale.

[–] MathiasTCK 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Original post was supposed to link to the threads.net thread I am quoting. No bots involved, I am using the Sync lemmy client on my Samsung.