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   From: throopw@sheol.org   
      
   :: Half way.  Yes on "here are my opinions on political matters, which   
   :: would clearly lead to utopia if they were implemented, because you   
   :: need to know them." No on "here are my opinions on group sex, etc.   
   :: etc."   
      
   : Only if you think the opinions on politics in "Troopers" are actually   
   : Heinlein's opinions, and not just a thought experiment.   
      
   I really dont see much evidence that Heinlein thought a "utopia" (as in,   
   optimal, stable social structure) was possible.  Nor that the ST society   
   was all that long-term stable.  Any more than the society which created   
   Coventry was utopian (see Methuselah's Children), or that in The Moon is   
   a Harsh Mistress was (see the end of the novel, or see The Cat Who   
   Walked Through Walls), in any fundamental sense.   
      
      
   Wayne Throop   throopw@sheol.org   http://sheol.org/throopw   
      
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