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Behind the Bastards
It's a book by Robert Heinlein where the character Lazarus Long, who inspired the name change of one of the libertarian boat city founders, is featured, and whose pro-individualistic philosophy was admired by the founder.
He took his new name from a character in Time Enough for Love, a novel by the American science fiction author, Robert Heinlein.
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It's a book by Robert Heinlein where the character Lazarus Long, who inspired the name change of one of the libertarian boat city founders, is featured, and whose pro-individualistic philosophy was admired by the founder.
He took his new name from a character in Time Enough for Love, a novel by the American science fiction author, Robert Heinlein.
I admired his philosophy. It was so close to my own philosophy, as he says of his fictional antecedent.
Episode: Part One: The Not-At-All-Sad History of Libertaria...
It was referenced for its character, Lazarus Long, whose individualistic philosophy influenced Howard Turney to adopt the name as a persona for his own libertarian project.
He took his new name from a character in Time Enough for Love, a novel by the American science fiction author, Robert Heinlein.
I admired his philosophy. It was so close to my own philosophy, as he says of his fictional antecedent.
Episode: Part One: The Not-At-All-Sad History of Libertaria...
It was mentioned as the source for the character, Lazarus Long, whose philosophies were described as individualistic and included Heinlein's famous 'there ain't no such thing as a free lunch' quote.
He took his new name from a character in Time Enough for Love, a novel by the American science fiction author, Robert Heinlein.
I admired his philosophy. It was so close to my own philosophy, as he says of his fictional antecedent.
The Lazarus Long of Heinlein's epic saga is centuries old and lives in a world where aging is a thing of the past.
Heinlein coined the phrase, 'there ain't no such thing as a free lunch'.
And among his other catchy aphorisms are 'all men are created unequal', 'taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed' and 'beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.'