5a. A slight digression on Social Credit, which I see as both a form of vernacular Keynesian & a crackpot scheme appealing to far right.
13. As @jonathanglick reminds me, I forgot that the blacks in Farnham's Freehold castrate the white heroes.
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14. One (perhaps too charitable) way to read these Heinlein books is that he had some satiric intent but lost control of the material.
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15. More broadly, Heinlein's problem was that he was sometimes Swiftian & sometimes Shavian (i.e characters as mouthpieces for ideas).
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