"A time is coming when men will go mad,..."

[TexasProgresive]

"...and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him saying, 'You are mad, you are not like us'."
-- St. Anthony of the Desert

In Robert Heinlein's Future History series there was a period he called the crazy years, maybe that is us, now.

[Augiedog]

1. Heinlein, Asimov and Clark were all prescient futurists. I grew up on them, and Tolkien of course.

[malthaussen]

2. Naw, the "crazy years" were the late sixties/early 70's.

And Bobby did his share in making them crazy.

-- Mal

[TexasProgresive]

4. Those years were just the dress rehearsal.

[MrScorpio]

3. I should have read more Heinlein nt

[TexasProgresive]

5. His philosophy is most complex

He is at once; a liberal, progressive, libertarian, conservative and is rather a free thinker on social and sexual mores.

[yodermon]

6. "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

Isaac Asimov, Column in Newsweek (21 January 1980)

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism

[HopeAgain]

8. This really started to take hold in the Reagan years...

The idea that government can be run on simplistic notions, false realities and modeling an ideal past that never was.

I remember my father (a republican, but not usually "staunch&quot told me I was living in an "ivory tower" because I became very interested in civil rights and liberal policies after going to law school. I was shocked, but for someone who grew up a farmer in Iowa, the Reagan appeal was very alluring, even if ridiculously simplistic.

[fleabiscuit]

7. Reavers! nt