Comments by "psikeyhackr" (@psikeyhackr6914) on "More Philosophical Science Fiction You Need to Read" video.

  1. Robert Heinlein doesn't get mentioned that much in relation to philosophical SF but another unmentioned thing about him is somewhat of a connection back to reality. Heinlein got interested in General Semantics by Alfred Korzybski in the late 1930s. Some of this can be seen between the lines in Stranger in a Strange Land and Moon is a Harsh Mistress. The mention of LOGLAN, Logical Language, in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress makes it more obvious. The Tyranny of Words by Stuart Chase Chase is mentioned in an essay by George Orwell about politics and he was part of FDR's brain trust having written the book, A New Deal. But Tyranny of Words is more readable than Science and Sanity by Korzybski. Heinlein's thinking gets kind of drowned out by the hullabaloo made about sex and religion in Stranger and sex and economics and politics in Harsh Mistress. Personally I think Heinlein was too intelligent to be a Libertarian.
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