The Individual Spirit.

I felt I needed to write a response to my last blog post. I love Heinlein’s stories, partially because I am an uber geek, and partially because I love the message in his early stories. His stories are the prototypes for most science fiction that followed them, and yes in lots of cases they are cheesy and poorly constructed. But even his early works like Space Cadet and Starship Troopers have glimpses of the greatness he showed in Stranger in A Strange Land.

His early stories always showed two things, the greatness of humanity as a species and the individualist human spirit. Yes, I am a liberal – very liberal in fact – and I believe strongly in the individual. Our current political climate has turned everything inside, outside and backwards to the point I felt the need to point out as I liberal I believe in the power of people, we the people if you will, a mixed up mash up of different individuals from different places working for themselves and each other. That I think is the greatness of humanity, when different people work together to achieve something unique. I think it's that greatness that may eventually save us someday from ourselves.