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Libertarian sci-fi author predicted current progressive-induced cultural failures over 60 years ago
The College Fix ^
| 04/03/2021
| Dave Huber
Posted on 04/07/2021 7:13:11 PM PDT by tbw2
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posted on
04/07/2021 7:13:11 PM PDT
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tbw2
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posted on
04/07/2021 7:13:28 PM PDT
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tbw2
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posted on
04/07/2021 7:22:04 PM PDT
by
sauropod
(Chance favors the prepared mind.)
To: tbw2
I wonder if “Farnham’s Freehold” is banned?
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posted on
04/07/2021 7:24:07 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
To: tbw2
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.
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posted on
04/07/2021 7:37:09 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(US MEDIA: " Every 'White' cop is a criminal! And all the 'non-white' criminals saints!")
To: tbw2
Juan Rico was played by the whitest most fair haired blue eyed dude possible in the movie.
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posted on
04/07/2021 7:39:52 PM PDT
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monkeyshine
(live and let live is dead)
To: tbw2
Christians have been saying pretty much the same thing for two thousand years.
Original sin.
Spare the rod, spoil the child.
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posted on
04/07/2021 7:46:49 PM PDT
by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
To: monkeyshine
Movie was pretty terrible all-around.
To: tbw2
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.
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posted on
04/07/2021 7:56:04 PM PDT
by
be-baw
To: tbw2
He also predicted the solution. Public televised executions for law breakers and citizenship with a voting franchise solely for those who serve. He didn't describe in detail the war that preceded this adjustment. Only that it set things into proper order. Starship Troopers the book for the literate.
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posted on
04/07/2021 7:59:00 PM PDT
by
katana
To: Bruce Campbells Chin
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.
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04/07/2021 7:59:20 PM PDT
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monkeyshine
(live and let live is dead)
To: tbw2
“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.This is known as "bad luck.”
- Robert Heinlein
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posted on
04/07/2021 8:13:26 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
To: Bruce Campbells Chin
The book had male troopers guarding the entrance to the female quarters.
The movie had the sexes showering together.
And many other Hollywood “improvements”.
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posted on
04/07/2021 8:25:00 PM PDT
by
BwanaNdege
( Experience is the best teacher, but if you can accept it 2nd hand, the tuition is less!)
To: monkeyshine
And that movie sucked donkey butt.
Tied with Dune as the worst book to movie adaptation of all time.
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posted on
04/07/2021 8:28:08 PM PDT
by
oldvirginian
(The glass is half empty because the damned thing is cracked and leaking. The 2020 election is proof.)
To: oldvirginian
Dune is unwatchable. I like some David Lynch stuff but giving him that project was a terrible idea.
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posted on
04/07/2021 8:31:23 PM PDT
by
monkeyshine
(live and let live is dead)
To: be-baw
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”.
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posted on
04/07/2021 8:35:45 PM PDT
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mrsmith
(US MEDIA: " Every 'White' cop is a criminal! And all the 'non-white' criminals saints!")
To: dynachrome
I wonder if “Farnham’s Freehold” is banned? It'd be worth getting fired to sneak that one into a high school reading list these days. Heads would explode.
To: monkeyshine
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.
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posted on
04/07/2021 8:40:35 PM PDT
by
Starcitizen
(So Indian H1B crybaby trash runs Free Republic moderation??? Seems so. )
To: tbw2
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)
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posted on
04/07/2021 8:43:00 PM PDT
by
Starcitizen
(So Indian H1B crybaby trash runs Free Republic moderation??? Seems so. )
To: Billthedrill
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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posted on
04/07/2021 8:52:53 PM PDT
by
cgbg
(A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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