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/
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.
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.
This is known as "bad luck.”
- Robert Heinlein
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)
Heinlein was a prophet.
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Good post, thanks.
He wrote a more famous popular book that had pretty much the exact opposite message. Total hippie crap. Grok?
Philip Dick is the one who really nailed things.
Good article!
“American historian Christopher Lasch, whom Bork quotes, said “Liberals have always taken the position that democracy can dispense with civic virtue. According to this way of thinking, it is liberal institutions, not the character of citizens, that make democracy work.”
The reality, Lasch says, is that “formally democratic institutions” are not sufficient for a “workable social order.” If you doubt this, merely look at the conditions in our cities … which “approach those of the Third World.”
On this subject:
Walter Cronkite interviewing Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke during Apollo 11 coverage in 1969...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMAmk5Rp1tk
No he didn’t! He GUESSED correctly. NO ONE knows the future except God.
There are NO MODERN DAY PROPHETS!
“Answer: Right now, the only “prophets” in the world are those in the general sense: those God inspires to warn the world about what the Bible says is to come. We see this reflected in Amos 3:7, “Surely the Lord GOD does nothing, unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets.”
However, as for a “Prophet” (note that capital “P”!) in the sense of someone who receives special communication directly from God that conveys information—such as detailed information about the future—that couldn’t be known from, say, understanding the Bible, no, there is no one today who fits that role.
Are there a lot of people who claim to be Prophets? You bet! But when it comes time for the rubber to meet the road with those people, they always fall short. Among other things, the Bible says that a real Prophet has to be accurate in His predictions (see Deuteronomy 18:22) and has to properly preach and teach obedience to God’s laws (see Deuteronomy 13:1-4 and Isaiah 8:20), and, frankly, no current “Prophets” out there fit the bill.
There have not been such Prophets in God’s Church for centuries. Part of the reason is that the Bible—God’s revealed word—is now complete. In the last book of the Bible to be revealed and written down, the book of Revelation, God caps things off: “For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book” (Revelation 22:18-19).
Once we had God’s Word written in the Bible, the need for Prophets among God’s people changed. And God is all about fulfilling the need, not giving fancy titles merely for the sake of giving fancy titles.
Still, there may be Prophets to come. The Bible says that that in the final three-and-a-half years before Jesus Christ returns, He will give power to two people who “will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth” (Revelation 11:3).
But currently, as of this writing, there are exactly nada, zilch, zero known Prophets, and don’t let anyone trick you into thinking otherwise. Still, those with other offices among God’s people—Evangelists, Pastors, etc.—continue to warn the world and preach the Word.”
READ LATER!
I grok RAH. My favorite quote of his:
“An armed society is a polite society”.
In one of his books, I cannot remember which one, he has a character that is “a page at a glance reader”. This fascinated me so in high school so I tried to become one. I never was able to do it but today I am very close. Reading is a drug to me, I read constantly. This ability has taught me that many people around me are not stupid, they just don’t know anything.
One of my all-time favorite novels!
Robert Heinlein was interesting, he was in the Navy, Annapolis Grad, till a medical issue forced him out. He was also a very Leftist person supporting Upton Sinclair for governor in California back in the 1930’s.
He ended up marrying a women that was very Conservative and changed his political ideology. He was way ahead of his time in predicting how society would turn out.
Another person was Philip Wylie, he wrote “Nest of Vipers” in 1942 and that book could have be written today with his commentaries on society.
I loved Robert Heinlein. We grew up in Butler. MO. My cousin lived in the house he was raised in.
His books introduced me to SciFi. Bradbury and Heinlein were my childhood heroes.