robert a heinlein to sail beyond the sunset

He foresaw and foreliked the reformation in sexual morals that progressives are now working to lock in: open homosexuality, gender fluidity, “sex work” as a respected career.

He was an emphatic anti-racist, disdained organized religion, practiced nudism, and favoured open marriage. Millions of women who found it more rewarding to have babies out of wedlock than it would be to get married or to go to work…Īs disgusted as he was by hooligans, bums, and tenured anti-intellectuals, Heinlein actually cheered on most of the cultural changes that emerged from the sixties. Public school teachers and state university professors who taught that patriotism was an obsolete concept, that marriage was an obsolete concept, that sin was an obsolete concept, that politeness was an obsolete concept – that the United States itself was an obsolete concept…Ĭocaine and heroin called “recreational drugs”, felony theft called “joyriding” … felonious assault by gangs called “muggings”, and the reaction to all these crimes was “boys will be boys”, so scold them and put them on probation but don’t ruin their lives by treating them as criminals… So many casual killings in public streets and public parks and public transports that most lawful citizens avoided going out after dark… In 1987’s To Sail Beyond the Sunset the heroine gazes back from the distant future on that era of mass psychoses: Somewhere between World War II and the first man on the moon Heinlein prophetically placed the Crazy Years – “a gradual deterioration of mores, orientation and social institutions, terminating in mass psychoses in the sixth decade”. The chronology stretched from what was then the immediate future – the mid-20th century – out to the year 2210.

Heinlein was best known as the author of a string of juvenile sci-fi adventure titles – still worth reading – and a loose sequence of short stories taking place in a single timeline, now known as the Future History. Before Stranger in a Strange Land made him a household name in the early sixties, Robert A.

Robert a heinlein to sail beyond the sunset