{"id":189695,"date":"2026-06-09T20:37:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T01:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=189695"},"modified":"2026-06-09T20:37:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T01:37:28","slug":"todays-proposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-proposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s proposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Devon Eriksen (<a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/06\/04\/its-called-starship-troopers-not-the-big-war-with-the-bugs\/\" target=\"_blank\">via Nicholas<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Heinlein was one of the 20th century\u2019s greatest authors, if not THE greatest, and he was also the 20th century\u2019s greatest philosopher and it\u2019s not even close.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is this defensible? I&#8217;ve read an immense amount of science fiction but little Heinlein<span id='easy-footnote-1-189695' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-proposition\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-189695' title='&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Glory Road&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Stranger in a Strange Land&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/i&gt; and a handful of short stories, all back when I was young and skinny.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>, and what Heinlein I have read didn&#8217;t particularly impress me. Are there depths to <i><b>Starship Troopers<\/b><\/i> and <i><b>The Moon is a Harsh Mistress<\/b><\/i> that are missing in what I have read?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devon Eriksen (via Nicholas): Heinlein was one of the 20th century\u2019s greatest authors, if not THE greatest, and he was also the 20th century\u2019s greatest philosopher and it\u2019s not even close. Is this defensible? I&#8217;ve read an immense amount of science fiction but little Heinlein, and what Heinlein I have read didn&#8217;t particularly impress me. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-proposition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today&#8217;s proposition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-NlB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189695"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189767,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189695\/revisions\/189767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}