What the Nazis of ‘Wolfenstein’ tell us about the futurists of Silicon Valley
Obligatory complaint about the mis-representation of Heinlein.<p>This is an author who also wrote a (glowing) book about anarcho-syndicalists liberating their prison colony from corporatists colonialists (that&#x27;d be MiaHM).  Does it get more anti-facist than that?  This is also the author who wrote a book about how free-love hippies are so much more correct than Mrs Grundy that physics itself obliges the hippies (I&#x27;m thinking of SiaSL).<p>But even Starship Troopers is a book not about facism, but about the virtues of service to the collective.  (Again, other books talk, <i>extensively</i>, about the problems with service to a collective.)<p>Of course service to a collective is part of a facist state, but it&#x27;s also part of a democratic state.  Well, a healthy one, anyway.<p>Heinlein&#x27;s politics were diverse and complicated (and sometimes thoughtful, and sometimes wrongheaded), and attempting to summarize them based on a shallow reading of one of his novels is a mistake no legitimate journalist should make.