We need a genealogy tracing the techno-utopian right from 1930s technocracy to John W. Campbell to Heinlein to Pournelle to the alt right.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
Was Heinlein a right-winger? I don't think I knew that somehow--although I didn't think much about that stuff in high school
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Replying to @dustinharbin
He was a socialist in 1930s/1940s but moved right in 1950s. Almost joined the John Birch Society. Starship Troopers is a key text here.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
I never read ST, but my big formative Heinlein as a (newly post-Christian) teen was Stranger In A Strange Land, a pretty Christ-y book
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Replying to @dustinharbin
What if I told you Jubal Harshaw in that book was based on L. Ron Hubbard. Would that blow your mind?
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Replying to @HeerJeet @dustinharbin
I’d say that’s not what David Hartwell told me. Unfortunately I can’t remember which writer he said Harshaw *was* based on.
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@womzilla (who phoned at an opportune moment), Harshaw was based on Erle Stanley Gardner, or possibly Rex Stout.2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
Thought I suppose Heinlein could have drawn inspiration from more than one source.
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Well, lots of details about Harshaw fit Hubbard (or at least idealized image of Hubbard RAH had).
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I always read that the Fosterites were pretty much the CoS
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