Stranger in a Strange Land

[mburbank]

Hey, baby.

It's a great book as a slice of history. I think Jubal Harshaw is an amazing character, but man! That whole crew of writers all thought they were Hugh Friggin' Heffner.

As far as the philosiphy stuff in it goes, I liked it a lot, but H. cops out by not getting into the heads of any of the people who convert. Even the most skeptikal are shown at the end as true believers eating soup and not being bothered by Michaels martyrdom and we never see their thought process which makes me think H didn't have it anywhere near as hashed out as he wanted to sound.

It's basically Bhudism for westerners, ie. enlightenment minus work, which kind of cheeses me off, but it's a great read and after all these years it still gets you thinking. I'd like to see a movie of it made as a period piece, set in the sixties. I think that would be most groovy.

Here's a slice o' history for you. There was a popular button that said "I grok Spock."