Hippies???
See Below:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Nathan Newman
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 2:30 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: Starship Troopers & left infantilism (Re: Carmen
> Electra with the troops
>
<<SNIP>>
Heinlein's books:
> ranging from
> his neo-fascism of Starship Troopers to his McCarthyite
> Puppetmasters to his
> oddly egalitarian/stone-racist Freedom's Farmhold to his
> hippie Stranger in a
> Strange Land to his libertarian Time Enough for Love.
>
<<SNIP>>
Heinlein did not write Stranger in a Strange Land to appeal to hippies. It was gnostic not guruistic. I once had the fun experience of having dinner with Arthur C. Clarke. He regailed us about how Heinlein loathed hippies. They kept tracking him down and ringing his doorbell. He was horrified. He finally put up a fence with a gate lock. Heinlein apparently did take his political ideology seriously, and thought hippies were drugged up idiots.
:-)
-Chip Berlet
See, for fun:
http://www.kitchenmedialab.org/download/reader2/californianideology. doc