5b. The useful part of Social Credit: belief there was a disjunction between production & currency, emphasis on consumption as solution.
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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16. Gay between Heinlein's intent and his effect often comes from fact that it's hard to know when he's being serious, when pulling our leg
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@mme_hardy@kiplet Soon to be published 2nd volume of biography offers some evidence. - Show replies
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