August 5, 2020 - Somewhere between World War II and the first man on the moon Heinlein prophetically placed the Crazy Years – “a gradual deterioration of mores, orientation and social institutions, terminating in mass psychoses in the sixth decade”.

August 27, 2017 - The Crazy Years, in Heinlein’s timeline, were when rapid changes in technology, together with the disruption those changes caused in mores and economics, caused society to, well, go crazy.

Click to enlarge. You can see the notes in the upper right, describing the period closest to Heinlein in time (basically the second half of the 20th century) as The Crazy Years, described as:

July 21, 2020 - He wasn't trying so much to be ... The "Crazy Years" was a time he predicted that would occur after the war and before the first moon landing, when social mores and society in general would break down....

December 24, 2019 - However, back in the early 1940s, Heinlein imagined the United States going through what he called the “Crazy Years” and later on experiencing religious fanaticism that leads to a theocracy.

Answer (1 of 11): The “Crazy Years”, was set somewhere between the end of the War (WW2) and the first moon landing, through 2100. An era spanning a century and a half and known for technological and scientific advancement. However, it was somewhat known for the begining of a period of America ...

August 24, 2017 - The Crazy Years, in Heinlein’s timeline, were when rapid changes in technology, together with the disruption those changes caused in mores and economics, caused society to, well, go crazy. They ran from the last couple of decades of the 20th Century into the first couple of decades of the 21st.

June 19, 2015 - I haven’t read heinlein in years. Anyway, he projected the future of the USA in a timeline-some point in the future was the so-called “Crazy years”. What went on during that time? When did it end?

March 3, 2016 - The state of the current political campaign in the USA and the referendum on the common market about to be held in the UK along with the mess the middle east had become over the last few decades has caused me to pick up the Past Through Tomorrow for this weeks rereading. it contains the short stories and novelas from the series but the whole outline can be seen at this link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_History_(Heinlein) given when these were written mostly in the 40s and 50s long before any thing like the internet existed some of his themes have a disturbing reality in the present day to them.

August 20, 2021 - I’m sure I am not the first to observe this, but it seems Robert A. Heinlein was on to something when he conceived of “The Crazy Years” as a condition American society found itself in as it absorbed technological, demographic, and economic changes into the whole of our civilization.

August 21, 2017 - The Crazy Years, in Heinlein’s timeline, were when rapid changes in technology, together with the disruption those changes caused in mores and economics, caused society to, well, go crazy.

March 25, 2017 - Seriously, read his last paragraph (above) again. Then recall that Heinlein portrayed Nehemiah Scudder taking the White House against the will of a majority, in 2012. (He also spoke of America sinking into “The Crazy Years.”)

January 12, 2010 - Ladies and gentlemen, we live in the Crazy Years. While Heinlein (as far as I know) supplied no rationale for the advent and the recession of the craziness in the Crazy Years, A. E. van Vogt was freer with is speculations: insanity, either of individuals or of peoples, in van Vogt’s stories (and perhaps in the theories of I.

What a great question. I grew up reading Heinlein and any libertarian ideas I have, he helped germinate. The answer to your question whether he was right in predicting “The Crazy Years” is a qualified maybe. There are some trends today that I find very scary and if they cont...

August 7, 2026 - The late Robert A. Heinlein, one of the 20th Century’s preeminent writers of speculative fiction, included an element in all the stories of his so-called “future history” series which he called “the Crazy Years.”

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E. van Vogt was freer with is speculations: insanity, either of individuals or of peoples, in van Vogt’s stories (and perhaps in the theories of I. Robert A Heinlein’s ‘Future History’ had a period during the latter half of the 20th Century called the Crazy Years.

June 14, 2025 - There was a time—not long ago—when Robert Heinlein’s “Crazy Years” were a curious bit of speculative fiction. A warning. A satirical stretch of chaos meant to bridge the rational, grounded past of humanity with its stellar future. You’d ...