31 pointsby ctoth4 hours ago3 comments
  • ballmerpoint2 hours ago
    (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.

    • GMoromisatoan hour ago
      It is also possible, maybe even likely, that we are the ones who are odd.
      • fellowniusmonk24 minutes ago
        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.

  • GMoromisatoan hour ago
    I believe countries and civilizations die when they stop believing this.
  • SBNakta3 hours ago
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