• WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I just did a search on both of those books and “libertarians” doesn’t show up. It wouldn’t make sense for it to be in a Foundation book anyway, since those are science fiction books set in the distant future and don’t mention contemporary political movements directly.

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        9 months ago

        The government of a space empire so far in the future that humans don’t even know what planet they originally came from anymore.

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          9 months ago

          Correct, governmental systems don’t change that much.

          Similarly the reader does know since robots - empire and foundation are all one contiguous series.

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            9 months ago

            The book was already identified in this thread, and it has absolutely nothing to do with Foundation. It’s a compilation of a bunch of non-fiction magazine articles. Why are you still beating this horse?

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              9 months ago

              Hence the modifier “probably” being included, it doesn’t change your outlandish stance on government in the series.

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                9 months ago

                You’re clearly an idiot so I’m not going to continue this thread any further, except to make it clear that my position is that Foundation is a science fiction series set in the distant future where a passage like this one, where the author voices an opinion on a contemporary political movement (naming it directly rather than using some sci-fi equivalent for it) would be completely out of place. I don’t know what you think my “outlandish stance on government in the series” is, and at this point I don’t care.