Thank you for expanding regarding the Senator...I have a better understanding of what you meant now...and I do see it as a recurring element of Heinlein's work.
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Originally Posted by j. d. worthington  Once again, I stress that this is still a fairly short time after the dynamics have changed, and a lifetime of habits isn't changed that quickly. |
I see your point, and will just add that Mary wasn't supposed to be an 'average' woman. She was a highly trained agent, and was also very 'young' in many ways due to her ordeal with the slugs. I believe Heinlein even had a passage regarding her unique past and her developmental age versus her chronological age, etc.
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Originally Posted by j. d. worthington but the belief in any kind of continuance beyond death (at least, as the individual is concerned, rather than the biological energy which may be generated from the breakdown of the physical organism) is a faith. |
I believe that is part of his point though. You can't KNOW anything regarding this type of stuff...it is 'Noumena' and therefore by definition not subject to rational debate, rather is better left to his fiction. He muses with his own personal ideas and ideas contrary to his own personal 'beliefs' through fiction. He avoids rational debate regarding it, and believes it falls to personal taste. "Not enough data".