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It's quite fitting that we have Zaphod Beeblebrox clones in both Nr 10 and the White House.
> Douglas Adams’s masterwork is blithely comic in tone but deeply serious in purpose. I thought it was just a funny book. What is its "deeply serious purpose"?
The contemporary resurgence of populism in politics feels a lot like the description of democracy in the "Wrong lizard won"-passage. You can read it here: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/162557-it-comes-from-a-very...
Hearing about Roman populism makes me think it's better than Nobel rule. At least occasionally the masses get a policy that benefits them. For instance the Trump tax cuts and Obamacare took money from the 10% and gave it to the masses. (I'm a bitter 10%er that thinks it's time for the 10% to unite)
So what's wrong with populism? The class warfare?
Is the actual issue demagogry like Trump and Bernie that have fake policy that wins the emotional and uneducated Masses?
And for those of you who would like to hear the original Radio Series again, it's being repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra right now: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000g55m I wonder if they will have the original Pink Floyd music when they land on Magrathea, or whether it will be edited out, as it was in the BBC recordings due to rights issues.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN...
“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
It's quite fitting that we have Zaphod Beeblebrox clones in both Nr 10 and the White House.
Otherwise we’re really in trouble.
And for those of you who would like to hear the original Radio Series again, it's being repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra right now: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000g55m I wonder if they will have the original Pink Floyd music when they land on Magrathea, or whether it will be edited out, as it was in the BBC recordings due to rights issues.
I love these books, but why post a pece that is paywalled?
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The contemporary resurgence of populism in politics feels a lot like the description of democracy in the "Wrong lizard won"-passage. You can read it here: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/162557-it-comes-from-a-very...
I have questions about populism. Hearing about Roman populism makes me think it's better than Nobel rule. At least occasionally the masses get a policy that benefits them. For instance the Trump tax cuts and Obamacare took money from the 10% and gave it to the masses. (I'm a bitter 10%er that thinks it's time for the 10% to unite) So what's wrong with populism? The class warfare? Is the actual issue demagogry like Tr…