and he yelled “get off my lawn!” at hippies who came to pay homage, after Stranger in a Strange Land. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything - you can’t conquer a free man the most you can do is kill him.” - Robert Heinlein, If This Goes OnĪs a fellow Science Fiction author, Heinlein largely raised me, and I resent it when some folks lazily dismiss Heinlein as a “right winger” or even “fascist.” Sure, there are ways in which he reads rather retro, today…. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, ‘This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,’ the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. “I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. John Lyle, a graduate of West Point and now a member of the Prophet’s elite guard “Angels of the Lord,” joins an underground revolt when he finally begins to question the society under which he always lived: A succession of fundamentalist despots have ruled for nearly a century, dating back to the First Prophet, Nehemiah Scudder. Heinlein’s 1953 “Future History” collection, Revolt in 2100, vividly portrays citizens rising up against an authoritarian theocracy which has taken root in America. You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic. Heinlein’s Future History: Coming True Before Our Eyes
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