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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
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_gtlyonJuly 24, 2021
Brave New World, Huxley
Animal Farm, Orwell
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Heinlein
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Persig
Cat's Cradle, Vonnegut
Catch-22, Heller
The first 3-4 books of the Foundation Series, Asimov
The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien
gostsamoonJune 14, 2021
inetseeonMay 7, 2021
flyingfencesonJuly 28, 2021
See also: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
NaturalPhallacyonJune 26, 2021
I have tried. It simply doesn't work. Proudly censorious authoritarian leftists. They see themselves as the good guys saving the world, and if that means free speech has to go, then so be it.
I'm reminded of this quote:
>“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
ponkoonApr 13, 2021
brudgersonMar 25, 2021
That's probably one reason why I read.
To say that Pound's translation of the Analects was more profoundly important than the Tao and Faulkner's The Town and Heinlein's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and The Hobbit from my youth and The Three Little Pigs read nearly nightly to a child doesn't make sense.
Sometimes I walk through Castaneda's world.
Sometimes Knuth's.
Other's I am in my head with Vonnegut.
Profoundness is out in the world.
And many books point to it.
mr_toadonJuly 28, 2021
I never saw much in the way of social conservatism in his writing (the religious right would probably be horrified by some of his work), but he was clearly opposed to collectivism.
pyuser583onJuly 29, 2021
I’m thinking of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. It had group marriages, but the marriage practices were ordained by custom and tradition. Not 20th century custom and tradition, but custom and tradition none the less.
medstromonMay 8, 2021
This is an odd view of communication. It works for whole stories, e.g. you can decouple Heinlein from his books and claim that The Moon is a Harsh Mistress primarily says something other than Heinlein actually had in mind, artistically speaking, but it's a very odd stance for single words. Communication is two-way, it has everything to do with both the speaker and listener. Words don't have any meaning except for what the speaker and listener assign to them. There is no "what the author actually said", there is only what they intended to say (and how it was interpreted).
In the role of listener/reader, your whole job is to figure out what the author intended. Otherwise I'm not sure we agree on what reading even is.