This post from Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit did its job. It made me think. Heinlein's "Star Ship Trooper" was a bookend with "Atlas Shrugged".
In my mind it stressed the responsibility of citizenship and the value of honor. I was horrified to see the modern movie that was so full of Nazi / Fascist images that it made me want to puke. Those images were exactly the last thing Heinlein intended, but then the lens belongs to Hollywood. (more our shame!) .
This is probably a good time to go back and re-read some Heinlein.. if ONLY because it gets our brains out of the crap happening now!
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: From Robert Heinlein:
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
This is known as “bad luck.”
I’m just sayin’.
Posted at 6:12 pm by Glenn Reynolds 
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