28 points | by ctoth 3 hours ago ago
4 comments
(1952).
Heinlein was such an odd fellow. Extremely progressive on one hand and extremely regressive on the other, sometimes in the span of a single paragraph.
It is also possible, maybe even likely, that we are the ones who are odd.
what a funny thing to think normative applies to people.
and thus that odd is coherent.
there is only one norm, only one universal human law we've never seen broken by any existing culture.
In all else, every man is the definition, the measure.
I believe countries and civilizations die when they stop believing this.
(1952).
Heinlein was such an odd fellow. Extremely progressive on one hand and extremely regressive on the other, sometimes in the span of a single paragraph.
It is also possible, maybe even likely, that we are the ones who are odd.
what a funny thing to think normative applies to people.
and thus that odd is coherent.
there is only one norm, only one universal human law we've never seen broken by any existing culture.
In all else, every man is the definition, the measure.
I believe countries and civilizations die when they stop believing this.