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Shifting the foundations

April 5, 2009 - 1:50 pm - by Richard Fernandez
buddy larsen
2009-04-05 16:18:01

–great juxtapose wretchard, our new entitlement to life without struggle and the Exodus phrase “stranger in a strange land” — which Heinlein named the novel wherein the hero comes to believe that humankind is violent because it needs violence to ‘weed itself out’ from under bad, or weak, or stupid, or silly, people and ideas that unweeded-out would otherwise kill off the whole human project. Why in Heinlein’s world that isn’t fascist is that it doesn’t organize (forbidden: the community organizer) –he meant the weeding out was an enterior self-driven bottom up individual duty to the future, to pay back those who did the service for your own future, to keep the future in being and flexible, so that someday everything could get figured out maybe. Not any sort of Eugenics crap. IOW, he’d've murdered Hitler, not worshiped him.