It seems like in so many of his books he glorifies engineering and frequently has the lead character be a brilliant engineer of some sort who moves mountains through harnessing technology and applied science. Which makes for interesting stories. But aside from this the characters have these internal monologues that seem to elevate engineering above all other disciplines and make everything else sound like silly paper shuffling or yapping. What about medicine and philosophy and art and pure science and math and poetry and the whole fucking world. There's no reason to put engineering up on the pedestal that he does. I understand that a man with a hammer tends to see the world as nails, but Heinlein's writing seems to not only do this but also masturbate to the sight of the hammer.
Submitted July 27, 2019 at 03:54AM by brokemac https://ift.tt/32UqB7h
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