Absolutely spot on! One of the more timeless truisms of political life.
Posted on 03/24/2010 11:57:27 PM PDT by GL of Sector 2814
It wasn’t that the movie was horrible as much as the book was so powerful no movie could convey the details written within.
No, Mrs. Don-o,
You made it cool for the rest of us. It is too important a concept not go get right.
Amadeo
My collection of Heinlein books (I have every one - some I have 2 of) is very old and mostly paperback. Some of the books are falling apart. I’ve always wished that someone would publish all his works in a collection. Apparently his wife did. The price is not feasible for this fan. Do you know of any other collections?
My mother was a great reader and collected many of his books and then shared them with me. I read the first one when I was 11 - TUNNEL IN THE SKY - (”Watch out for the Stobor!”) then devoured the rest in her library. I always looked for his books in every book store I visited and finally managed to get all of them. That collection you linked to would be lovely to have. He was a great writer.
Thanks for your post.
While I agree with the second part of your sentence, I can't agree with the first part. That movie was just awful!
The director is obviously of the opinion that military people are both stupid and psychotic.
According to the DVD commentary, director Paul Verhoeven never finished reading the novel, claiming he read through the first few chapters and became both "bored and depressed."
I despise the movie.
What about this one?
“I have no slightest interest in ‘True Prince’ nonsense. Nor do I regard all that wealth as ‘his’; he didn’t produce a shilling of it. Even if he had earned it himself-impossible at his age -’property’ is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.”
“Come again?”
“Ownership, of anything, is an extremely sophisticated abstraction, a mystical relationship, truly. God knows our legal theorists make this mystery complicated enough-but I didn’t begin to see how subtle it was until I got the Martian slant on it. Martians don’t have property. They don’t own anything . . . not even their own bodies.”
- Stranger in a Strange Land
It's a reversion to the old system. Prisons are a relatively modern invention. Older societies could not afford to feed large numbers of unproductive men. If somebody demonstrated that he was too dangerous to continue to live in the society, the only real choices were exile or execution.
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