/lit/ - Literature

The sci-fi story as a whole is a framing device for the authors ideologies. It's a vehicle to convey the ideology to children (That is to say it is at least written on a level accessible to adolescents so as to cast the widest net. Same reason news papers are written on a 6th grade level.) Its longwinded and boring with the promise of some sweet bug action but he blows his load too early and can only manage to poot out a small follow up load at the end. Heinlein took way too long to say this "nationalism is good and desirable under the right circumstances." What those circumstances is left a bit ill defined. You could extrapolate from there never being two characters of the same race side by side that the author believes "nationalism=good, whitenationalism=bad" but for as long as the author drones on yet still doesn't manage to make that last part clear, I'm forced to be live that he left it vague because he believes his views to be self evident. Judging from the books mostly positive reception perhaps those views are self evident just not to me. It begs the question, what utopia is this a military force for? And what real world society dose it represent?