Yeah, all that "Grok" crap, the hippies and liberals still worship the weird old guy as some sort of god. The hints of homosex are likely the key to it.
“...liberals still worship the weird old guy..”
It seems a lot of conservatives like him too.
I tried “Stranger in a Strange Land” twice. Once in about 8th grade when the whole class was reading it as an assignment. A sufficient number of us hated it sufficiently so we voted to read another book. Interestingly I have no idea what that other book was but have never forgotten SIASL.
I tried it again years later, but just couldn’t, you know, grok it.