Re: Phonemes

David Wright Sr. wrote:
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> "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:42BF07DC.2DF7
> @worldnet.att.net:
>
> > David Wright Sr. wrote:
> >>
> >> António Marques <m.ap@xxxxxxx> wrote in news:42beccac$0$21044$a729d347
> >> @news.telepac.pt:
> >>
> >> > David Wright Sr. wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> First. What were the 'utopian' futures that he wrote about? Name one
> >> >> and say why you think that it was 'fascistic'
> >> >
> >> > I'm not big on Heinlein, but I have a friend who is, and he cites the
> >> > 'fascistic' nature of his writings as one of their qualities (e.g.,
> >> > he's actually pleased by the real or perceived fascistic nature of
> >> > them, and not loathe of them in any regard).
> >>
> >> Well, he is as wrong as Daniels.
> >
> > Spewing out dictionary definitions is the last refuge of the
> > argumentless.
>
> No, ad hominem attacks are the last refuge of those who do not know what
> they are talking about and have nothing else that they can say.
>
> You are the one claiming 'fascism'. If you don't care for these
> definitions, then give us your own and show how it applies and to what.
>
> Or admit that you are wrong.

The same definition that allows it to be applied to the Bush regime: the
total merger of corporate and government interests.

(And of course I know about the Peace Corps loophole in Starship
Troopers. If you'd been a high-schooler in New York in the 1960s you'd
have listened to Brad Crandall's proto-talk-radio call-in show on WOR
every evening and heard him endlessly extol Heinlein's proposal. Years
later he became the voice of Tums, but he was also the "host" and
narrator of one of the worst movies ever made, *In Search of Noah's Ark*
-- which I saw at the Uptown Theatre in Chicago (world's largest until
Radio City Music Hall opened) shortly before it closed it doors forever.
I no longer had any interest in anything Brad Crandall might have to
say.)

Why don't you make the same demand of Antonio's friend?
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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