But the importance of his work cannot be overstated.
Incidentally, Robert Heinlein used to be a hippie leftist too. Compare "Stranger in a Strange Land" to "Starship Troopers." The book, not the movie--the movie is a guilty pleasure and loaded with memes, but the book is very different.
How does that quote go, if you're not a liberal when young, you have no heart, if you're not a conservative when grown up, you have no brain?
Except I think the liberal and heart part has been corrupted into evil nowadays.
Often, the greatest right-wing figures started off on the other side. Thomas Sowell, George Orwell, the list is nigh inexhaustible.
Converts are often the most zealous.
Orwell was never much of a right-winger.
But the importance of his work cannot be overstated.
Incidentally, Robert Heinlein used to be a hippie leftist too. Compare "Stranger in a Strange Land" to "Starship Troopers." The book, not the movie--the movie is a guilty pleasure and loaded with memes, but the book is very different.
How does that quote go, if you're not a liberal when young, you have no heart, if you're not a conservative when grown up, you have no brain? Except I think the liberal and heart part has been corrupted into evil nowadays.
People who want to do good but do not arm themselves with knowledge are the easiest to pervert to good-sounding evil causes.
Easiest to manipulate
Reagan