Message from @Legiondude

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For once we agree evil Socialists!

2018-04-14 19:25:13 UTC  

***REPARASHUNS***

2018-04-14 19:49:04 UTC  

These people are laughable

2018-04-14 19:52:08 UTC  

Yeah

Brexit <:makes_you_think:382980749780844554>

2018-04-14 20:15:14 UTC  

Conolized.

2018-04-14 20:18:56 UTC  

WE WUZ CONOLIZED N SHIET

2018-04-14 20:22:24 UTC  

So I've been researching Heinlein in preparation Sargons video about Starship Troopers

Sargon does the research I just fact him

2018-04-14 20:23:05 UTC  

Hipster.

2018-04-14 20:23:29 UTC  

I picked up rereading the book

2018-04-14 20:23:37 UTC  

Lol I thought I'd do my English paper on him

2018-04-14 20:23:50 UTC  

Interested in hearing Sargon's thoughts about one of the characters disparaging of natural rights

2018-04-14 20:24:48 UTC  

So, Heinlein didn't start writing until after halfway through his second marriage, which today would probably be called a 'Rabid Feminist'

2018-04-14 20:25:37 UTC  

His wife that is

2018-04-14 20:25:41 UTC  

Ah

2018-04-14 20:26:02 UTC  

Doesn't show with how Johnny fawns over the women stationed on his ship

2018-04-14 20:27:03 UTC  

Something about his wife's politics, combined with the closeout of the second world war, caused him to start writing, with even Heinlein calling it 'propaganda'.

2018-04-14 20:27:33 UTC  

Before all of this, he was an active member of the Socialist party as well

2018-04-14 20:28:26 UTC  

TL;DR He got woke on communism, and started to tear into it

2018-04-14 20:28:36 UTC  

So like Orwell

2018-04-14 20:28:49 UTC  

Idk, I haven't looked up his personal life

2018-04-14 20:29:14 UTC  

I wonder how much living with this "Rabid Feminist" shaped his views going into writing *The Moon is a Harsh Mistress*

2018-04-14 20:29:23 UTC  

The relationships in that one are a bit more communal

2018-04-14 20:29:24 UTC  

IIRC

2018-04-14 20:30:01 UTC  

So now, I'm organizing his entire bibliography by date, and cross referencing his personal life along with social changes in the 60s and 70s

2018-04-14 20:31:12 UTC  

You can even classify his works by 'diagnosis' 'perscription' and 'possible future outcomes'

The basic concept resonates with me because I do give at least one afternoon and normally an evening as well to unpaid community service per week

Service is Citizenship

2018-04-14 20:32:40 UTC  

I've classified that one (starship) as a 'prescription'.

Take a look at "for us, the living". That's his first piece of writing

2018-04-14 20:33:29 UTC  

Guy gets in a car accident, and wakes up 150 years in the future

2018-04-14 20:33:45 UTC  

And it's not a pretty future at that.

but I'm curious to see what Sargon makes of it

2018-04-14 20:36:28 UTC  

Oh, yeah. But that's just the one book. I'm looking at his collection as a collection of thoughts about the political climate of the Era it was written in

2018-04-14 20:36:51 UTC  

So fascinating

2018-04-14 20:37:08 UTC  

Now I'm reading up on his Wikipedia article

His second wife was a nudist, an alcoholic, and permitted an open relationship. I'm sort of amazed he managed to last 15 years at that

2018-04-14 20:37:24 UTC  

That was HIS thing as well!

2018-04-14 20:37:59 UTC  

He met her, as she was his friends GF, and then he slept with her that same night