(10-09-2021, 04:24 PM)Dartz Wrote: If it is, it's been so long since I read the books I can't remember. Either way, they brought this on themselves. Literally, this is the first time in human history where you can point at a people as a whole and rightfully declare that they brought it on themselves and deserve the consequences of their decision.
I mean, there're already talks of sending food aid to the UK -- like actually, food aid.
RE: The Hitchhiker's Guide, there was the part where they were sent back in time and met the people who originally colonized the Earth and screwed up the grand experiment started by the computer, Deep Thought, and the Magrathea Corporation to find the answer to life, the universe, and everything in general.
What happened?
Well, a civilization of sufficiently advanced people got rid of their entire working class by tricking them into thinking they were relocating because of some impending disaster they made up. Why? They didn't like their working class - they're a bunch of idiots. (Which, really, they were.) Unfortunately for this civilization, the joke was on them since they didn't have anyone to replace their working class, and all wound up dying of a pandemic communicated by public pay phones* not getting sterilized. Guess the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree.
This is reflected in the UK's decision to get rid of immigrants who generally take working class jobs that require little or no education... and then bitching and moaning about how there's no one to work said jobs.
* Keep in mind, Douglas Adams wrote this long before cell phones became so commonplace that even a homeless person can get a cheap prepaid phone, and supplanted the public pay phone. If you ever find one that is 1) Intact and 2) Actually Works, take a picture and post it on social media. With any luck, it will become a historic site!
