Re:In the Strange Land of Robert Heinlein (1984)
by GeekyBear on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @11:53PM
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> Heinlein wrote a book in favor of polyamory
Heinlein has explicitly said that Stranger in a Strange Land was not an effort to convince people to live in any particular way.
>“I was not giving answers. I was trying to shake the reader loose from some preconceptions and induce him to think for himself, along new and fresh lines. In consequence, each reader gets something different out of that book because he himself supplies the answers... It is an invitation to think -- not to believe.”
Heinlein has explicitly said that Stranger in a Strange Land was not an effort to convince people to live in any particular way.
>“I was not giving answers. I was trying to shake the reader loose from some preconceptions and induce him to think for himself, along new and fresh lines. In consequence, each reader gets something different out of that book because he himself supplies the answers... It is an invitation to think -- not to believe.”
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/09/28/l...
Advocating that people should be willing to reconsider their deeply held cultural beliefs was a major theme in Heinlein's later works.