reading Time Enough For Love right now“While America became increasingly liberal, he became increasingly right wing, and it hobbled his once-formidable imagination.”
Of course it did; if he’d become increasingly left wing it would have spurred his imagination to unfathomable heights.
So the NPC reviewer concluded: “Orange Man Bad, except for the perverted sex.”
An extremely prolific writer, I especially loved his earlier work. My favorite sci-fi writer hands down.
If you need any more evidence of how Starship Troopers is conservative and pro-Christian?
Try watching Starship Troopers 3 and you’ll know what I mean..;)
“Heinlein was equally beloved in military circles, especially for his book Starship Troopers (1959), a gung-ho shout-out for organized belligerence as the key to human survival. A thoroughly authoritarian book...”
There’s nothing authoritarian about the book. I blame pseudojournalists who use Cliff notes for this error.
To the contrary, Heinlein very much believed that people deserve to suffer or benefit from the consequences of their actions.
What? I love Heinlein’s books-and because I think “Farnham’s Freehold” is indeed a cautionary tale about racism that makes me a KKK member? What a crock...
Why attack Heinlein? Easy. There is no figure in literature more likely to lead a left-leaning Progressive parasite to the conservative side.
Jeet Heer is an idiot. RAH is THE Grand Master of Science Fiction. I’ve been reading SF for fifty years, and have found no other author that is even close. Many that I have enjoyed, of course, but none with the breadth and scope of RAH.
It's a very common progression as one ages.
Ping.
Excellent writer.
What bizarre scholicism. Original ideas and views are just suspect.
Yeah, there aree a lot of contradictions in libertarianism, that’s life!
I don’t like watching explanations of how movie special effects were done, and I don’t like detailed explanations of an authors psyche (I am glad to read he voted for Goldwater). I like Heinlein’s stories, enough said - Fairwitness.
I don’t like watching explanations of how movie special effects were done, and I don’t like detailed explanations of an authors psyche (I am glad to read he voted for Goldwater). I like Heinlein’s stories, enough said - Fairwitness.
The article’s writer, Jeet Heer, is obviously disliking of Heinlein’s politics and this impairs his ability to comment effectively. Really, the only wonderful pieces of the article are the direct quotes from Heinlein.
Face it Jeet, Heinlein started out as a left wing liberal and decided it was no good for a person or society. When liberalism move even more to the left, he declined to go with it.
This is a hit piece designed to remove remnants of Heinlein’s influence from leftist literary circles. This “purge trial” will be held for anyone else who straddles two worlds in an attempt to understand social phenomena with their critical faculties intact. Logic alone should decide all things.
reading Time Enough For Love right nowJeet Heer is a pompous scumbag maderchood.