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Originally Posted by Pajamaman
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You already posted this counter to my post two pages back (though it was a PK Dick treatise on Heinlein's politics that time). And I already told you I don't care about his politics. I care about his stories.
I asked what was Libertarian about a
plot and you keep posting things that concern the libertarianism of the man who
wrote the plot.
And call me crazy, but David Brin--while acknowledging Heinlein's personal, general Libertarian bent (and noting that it differed wildly from the Libertarian party of today)--seems to me to be criticizing those who would pigeon-hole his books and/or writing as merely polemic for
any particular political/philisophical school of thought. In short Brin said exactly what I've been trying to say: the man wasn't his books, and was much less political in his writing than many would have us believe.