Posted on 11/18/2018 6:15:19 PM PST by narses
“While America became increasingly liberal, he became increasingly right wing, and it hobbled his once-formidable imagination.”
Of course it did; if he’d become increasingly left wing it would have spurred his imagination to unfathomable heights.
So the NPC reviewer concluded: “Orange Man Bad, except for the perverted sex.”
An extremely prolific writer, I especially loved his earlier work. My favorite sci-fi writer hands down.
If you need any more evidence of how Starship Troopers is conservative and pro-Christian?
Try watching Starship Troopers 3 and you’ll know what I mean..;)
“Heinlein was equally beloved in military circles, especially for his book Starship Troopers (1959), a gung-ho shout-out for organized belligerence as the key to human survival. A thoroughly authoritarian book...”
There’s nothing authoritarian about the book. I blame pseudojournalists who use Cliff notes for this error.
This article sets my teeth on edge. Nothing imaginative about leftists except their limitless ability to destroy everything they touch.
To the contrary, Heinlein very much believed that people deserve to suffer or benefit from the consequences of their actions.
What? I love Heinlein’s books-and because I think “Farnham’s Freehold” is indeed a cautionary tale about racism that makes me a KKK member? What a crock...
Why attack Heinlein? Easy. There is no figure in literature more likely to lead a left-leaning Progressive parasite to the conservative side.
Jeet Heer is an idiot. RAH is THE Grand Master of Science Fiction. I’ve been reading SF for fifty years, and have found no other author that is even close. Many that I have enjoyed, of course, but none with the breadth and scope of RAH.
It's a very common progression as one ages.
...While America became increasingly liberal, he became increasingly right wing, and it hobbled his once-formidable imagination...
Only liberals, of course, can be creative.
Ping.
Excellent writer.
Those movies have even less in common with Robert Heinlein’s book than the movies that were made based on Ian Flemming’s books.
At age twelve, Heinlein fell in love with scientific romances of H.G. Wells, which offered not only a compelling vision of the world to come but also an irresistible political program. For Wells, socialism and science fiction were natural partners, both attempts to constructively imagine the future. As a teen, Heinlein signed on for the full Wellsian program of economic planning, sexual liberation, internationalism, and secularism. Political radicalism, with its call to build a collective future, offered Heinlein a necessary corrective to his instinctive self-obsession, his ingrained inability to accept the reality of other people.
No wonder he became a writer. That's a set of mental midgetry practically diagnostic of being a writer. The author of this "review" suffers from it.
What bizarre scholicism. Original ideas and views are just suspect.
Yeah, there aree a lot of contradictions in libertarianism, that’s life!
I agree on all points. Just re-read “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” for the upteenth time again last week.
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