More things we aren’t allowed to say publicly anymore
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Starship Troopers has a really good part where it talks about society failing, due to lack of discipline. If I didn't know better I'd think Heinlein had a crystal ball. More rational take is that this kind of rot goes farther back than I'd realized, since Starship Troopers was first published in '59.
Heinlein's works are more prophetic than you may realize. Not just with Starship Troopers, but also Friday ... a book that follows a synthetic human about in a future hypersexualized society that can change genders at will living in a balkanized United States.
Job: A Comedy of Justice was interesting as well as Stranger in a Strange Land but that last one is just a retelling of the story of Jesus.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress carries some interesting ideas about running a cell-based terrorist organization ... and The Cat That Walks Through Walls is just strange.
Heinlein was very open with the fact that his "predictions" were from him looking at his current world, then 20, 40, 60 years back, and then extrapolating from there. For a guy who could walk from his family's jewelry store to the bank with a literal sack of cash at 12, seeing a world where there was no safety in big cities wasn't a stretch for 1959.
Humans aren't stupid. Most of us can realize the majority of the failings in almost any societal system and point them out by instinct.
The issue is, humans hate to be hypocrites. So they will suppress any amount of noticing they do to make sure they don't implicate themselves when calling things out. Its self retarding to keep your moral highground.
That's why all the Lefties will crow about every type of injustice under the sun. Except classism, because that would require them to not only acknowledge their extreme flaw but be compelled by basic human morality to correct by giving up their cushy life.
Worse yet, many times they aren't even doing it deliberately at the outset. The brain is a shitty little organ that will absolutely do that shit for you, because it wants to avoid anxiety and challenge. It'll outright delete that information from your mind to keep it from taking hold, just like it deletes your nose from your vision every moment of the day.
Well for context of timeframe, Sowell walked away from professorship in the 60’s citing the lax of academic standards and the narrowing of focus on degrees. The same academic Joseph Campbell whose “book” is pictured above, left academics around the same time for the same reason.