Well, that is going to explain so much about 2020. It’s like the planets aligning. I fully expect Vulcans to make contact with humanity this year. Or Klingons.
“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” turns 42
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#62Obligatory mention for every fan of Douglas Adams: "Parrots, the Universe, and everything". [0]
Watch the whole thing. You will thank me later.
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#63And 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.
The game is also on the bbc, for anyone feeling nostalgic for the BBC Micro game. I spent many frustrated hours dying in that game as a child. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN...
Archive.org also has a less-fancy version of it: https://archive.org/details/HitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxyMacin...
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#64Back in 2004 I had the H2G2 website (h2g2.com) bookmarked on my Nokia 3100 and would read it whenever I was waiting for the bus (this was before Google Reader). A cheeky, entertaining precursor to Wikipedia.
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#65Well, that is going to explain so much about 2020. It’s like the planets aligning. I fully expect Vulcans to make contact with humanity this year. Or Klingons.
As long as it isn't Vogons
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#66It's quite fitting that we have Zaphod Beeblebrox clones in both Nr 10 and the White House.
I do hope the true ruler of things turns out to be an old bloke in a hut with no interest in anything beyond a vague affection for his (possibly imaginary) cat. Otherwise we’re really in trouble.
Jose Mujica almost fits the decription. BTW I don't think he was very good overall.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Populist politicians claim that they represent "The People." The problem, as Umberto Eco pointed out, is that The People is a fiction. We have only The Public, which is a collection of individuals with diverse interests and beliefs. We aggregate The Public's will though democracy as it is impossible for a single individual or political group to speak for everyone. But populists claim that democratic institutions do n…
What if democratic institutions really have been captured by an elite? Regulatory capture comes to mind as a problem that objectively exists.
The kind of populism that promises easy answers by oversimplifying the issues is a problem.
At the same time, I often feel that there is a deep flaw in modern "moderate/centrist" thinking in not trying hard enough to do the things that would actually be popular, instead coming up with overly technocratic and ultimately flawed arguments for maintaining a status quo that provides bad results for a large fraction of the population.
As a politician, how would you call for getting out of that without being branded as the bad kind of populist?
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
Populist politicians claim that they represent "The People." The problem, as Umberto Eco pointed out, is that The People is a fiction. We have only The Public, which is a collection of individuals with diverse interests and beliefs. We aggregate The Public's will though democracy as it is impossible for a single individual or political group to speak for everyone. But populists claim that democratic institutions do n…
I wanted to verify this description by reading the definition in Wikipedia, but then I realised that the editor elites control Wikipedia and hide the truth from the people. So I'm none the wiser.
Actually, thank you for that description. It's the best summary I've ever read and cleared up a lot of my confusion about the term.
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#69> 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"?
He also used the book to explore his hatred of poetry