My personal favorite is from his ‘Double Star.’ It’s never discussed in great detail, but the quick version is that voters get to choose what non-geographic community they live in.
Instead of picking your Member of Parliament based on your physical address, you can opt to be part of the community of ‘Farmers’ or ‘Teachers’ or ‘Military Veterans’ or ‘Gamers’ or ‘Soccer Moms.’
Heinlein always had a knack of finding core societal issues as well as the most deranged solutions to them.
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
My personal favorite is from his ‘Double Star.’ It’s never discussed in great detail, but the quick version is that voters get to choose what non-geographic community they live in.
Instead of picking your Member of Parliament based on your physical address, you can opt to be part of the community of ‘Farmers’ or ‘Teachers’ or ‘Military Veterans’ or ‘Gamers’ or ‘Soccer Moms.’