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Originally Posted by Lothar5150
Wow, Bill thats getting a little 1932ish
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The eugenics movement
did start in the US. Heinlein picked up on that one as well (Methuselah stories) albeit not on the sterilization part.. The interesting part about his life (for me) is that he did
not have himself frozen after death (Door into Summer).
Oh and way,
way back at the beginning of this thread, on Phaestus' mention of "the Jesus party" I found myself thinking of his "If This Goes On" (revolution against a theocracy in the once-US).
Interesting that the Marines should read Troopers. Too bad about the movie. Of course, beyond eye candy, the point Verhoeven was making was about totalitarian societies - which BillA's sterilization fits right into.
So much for being SF literate.
Recently, I've been wondering if the best thing might be to try to organize Iraq into states/regions/whatever and let
them decide if they want to stay together. Why should we impose a British-made border on them? The Turks'll have a fit over Kurdistan, the Iranians will try to absorb the south, but wouldn't this actually give the Sunnis less reason to fight. They've lost their control of the country and, with democracy, are facing a tyrany of the majority (something Dems here in the US might understand... :-))