Posted on 04/07/2021 7:13:11 PM PDT by tbw2
Way back in 1959 legendary science fiction author and political libertarian Robert Heinlein was quite clairvoyant in predicting the demise of our culture due to misguided progressive policies and beliefs.
Much of Troopers’ “future history” is told via high school teacher and former infantryman Colonel Jean DuBois to protagonist Juan Rico (by the way, how is that for diversity — a novel from the 1950s in which the main character is Filipino and whose family speaks Tagalog?). In one scene, students in DuBois’ class are horrified that children couldn’t play in city parks in the 20th and early 21st centuries because they had been taken over by thugs.
Take a glance at the current news regarding New York City, Portland, Minneapolis, Chicago and Seattle.
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Libertarian sci-fi author predicted current progressive-induced cultural failures over 60 years ago
https://www.thecollegefix.com/libertarian-sci-fi-author-predicted-current-progressive-induced-cultural-failures-over-60-years-ago/
Bkmk
I wonder if “Farnham’s Freehold” is banned?
If every libertarian had Heinlein’s genius, libertarians would rule the world.
Yes, he did, indeed, foresee and deal with the changes that occurred in the future.
Juan Rico was played by the whitest most fair haired blue eyed dude possible in the movie.
Original sin.
Spare the rod, spoil the child.
Movie was pretty terrible all-around.
I’ve been reading a lot of Heinlein lately. When I was in college I read several of his books and felt for a long time that “Time Enough for Love.” was one of the best books I ever read. I seldom read a novel more than once but I got a hankering to read it again. It was a very good book, but I wouldn’t say now it was among the best I ever read.
And, yes, “The Dean of space age Science Fiction” was prescient and had a pretty good idea how technology would evolve and he showed perception and was able to get his predictions public through his novels.
He was definitely a small government kind of guy. Now I’m reading “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” also a fun read. I have several more of his novels to read, most of which I haven’t read before.
It was supposed to be satire, but didn’t pull it off very well. Nevertheless some of the allegorical stuff still works - the “federation”, “become a citizen”, and mostly the bad military intelligence that caused troops to be sent off to fight in a foreign land only to get slaughtered before they even landed.
This is known as "bad luck.”
- Robert Heinlein
The book had male troopers guarding the entrance to the female quarters.
The movie had the sexes showering together.
And many other Hollywood “improvements”.
And that movie sucked donkey butt.
Tied with Dune as the worst book to movie adaptation of all time.
Dune is unwatchable. I like some David Lynch stuff but giving him that project was a terrible idea.
Risky to re-read what impressed us when we were young...
A short story of Heinlein’s I found as satisfying is “The Roads Must Roll”.
It'd be worth getting fired to sneak that one into a high school reading list these days. Heads would explode.
Dune is unwatchable. I like some David Lynch stuff but giving him that project was a terrible idea.
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Always avoided Dune due to its Islamic connection.
Yeah from Filipino to Lily-white Argentinian (hey the woke crowd would have demanded the movie pulled if Rico would have been American or European white)
Most of the great science fiction of the 1950s and 1960s will be banned if the leftist zombies figure out what is in it.
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