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[Lawman]

Which it wasn’t. In fact, I don’t really recall many of his novels that glorified the military. I will admit that Starship Troopers illustrated a more competent variety of the military than usual. I don’t get the rest of the accusations at all. In the fictional government described, the rights of a citizen and a legal resident were identical, except for one, the ability to vote. If you wanted to get the vote, you did federal service, which outside of times of war, was done mostly with non-military jobs. In fact, if you wanted to serve, they had to accept you if you could understand the oath of office. They’d literally make a job for you if you wanted to earn your franchise.

Outside of ST, Heinlein certainly emphasized that highly competent individuals could succeed in a variety of circumstances, and that math was important, which it is.

It’s never a very formed or developed argument, usually when you see it online or in conversations it’s by almost always people who only know or parrot the talking points given to them by the echo chamber. The loudest proponents of the idea didn’t read and comprehend ST, and they certainly didn’t extract anything of value from it or more importantly read anything else in his catalog.

It’s a trope commentary by the same group of people that get all in a huff when they are at the airport and hear the phrase, “we’d like to welcome our active duty military travelers and uniformed personnel to board in advance.”


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[MikeD]

It’s a trope commentary by the same group of people that get all in a huff when they are at the airport and hear the phrase, “we’d like to welcome our active duty military travelers and uniformed personnel to board in advance.”


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I was at the airport terminal a month ago listening to this woman talking to her travel companions about how insensitive it is to fat shame, that the people who do so are complete self serving a-holes, etc. Then about 30 mins later, the conversation shifts to riding on airliners and how she wished the airlines would keep the middle seats clear, because she just hates it when some big person sits there and spills over across the armrest into her seat area.

 

[Richman]

It’s never a very formed or developed argument, usually when you see it online or in conversations it’s by almost always people who only know or parrot the talking points given to them by the echo chamber. The loudest proponents of the idea didn’t read and comprehend ST, and they certainly didn’t extract anything of value from it or more importantly read anything else in his catalog.

It’s a trope commentary by the same group of people that get all in a huff when they are at the airport and hear the phrase, “we’d like to welcome our active duty military travelers and uniformed personnel to board in advance.”


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I’ve read most of his books, and in the few books that the military is involved, he always describes it as harsh, dirty work, which in fact, it is. I’d hardly call that glorifying.

If there is any repetition to his works, it’s that each novel or story usually has one hyper-competent individual that drives the narrative. They either start that way, or become that way over the course of the story. The moral there is if you are smart, you can get things done in unusual circumstances or if you’re not smart, you can get that way by hard work.

 

[Lawman]

I’ve read most of his books, and in the few books that the military is involved, he always describes it as harsh, dirty work, which in fact, it is. I’d hardly call that glorifying.

If there is any repetition to his works, it’s that each novel or story usually has one hyper-competent individual that drives the narrative. They either start that way, or become that way over the course of the story. The moral there is if you are smart, you can get things done in unusual circumstances or if you’re not smart, you can get that way by hard work.

There is a reason ST is on every services “recommended leadership reading” and it’s got nothing to do with some kind of glory rally, “we should run things,” message the critics seem to find in the book from where I have no idea…

Heinlein’s hyper-military hierarchy in the book advocates for a core understanding that in a position of leadership you are a steward of lives under your command and the currency/judgement of that position is in its most demanding, the deaths at your hands for your failure to be the leader you should have been for them. That’s a military truth in combat whether you command a squad or an Army.

It’s not some glorification of the hyper strong man alpha should be in charge like his critics seem to think. And it’s brutally honest about the cost of conflict being born on the bodies of those that come back from it.


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[Cherokee_Cruiser]

• AA changed our Covid sick leave for unvaccinated.
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  Eligibility for company-provided pandemic leave. Going forward, given there is an FDA-approved vaccine, pandemic leave will only be offered to team members who are fully vaccinated and who provide their vaccination card to us. Effective Oct. 1, if team members who choose to remain unvaccinated have to miss work due to COVID-19, they will need to use earned sick time and/or medical leave while away.

Same with Alaska now. If unvaxxed and come down with Covid OR exposure to Covid at work and have to quarantine, it’s coming out of your sick bank.

 

[SteveC]

Heinlein was my favorite author growing up.