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Would that Adams were still alive, that we might hear his thoughts on the current state of affairs.
Adams' superpower was noting the mundane, dragging it out to its assanine yet inescapable conclusion.
Things like Hotblack Desiato spending a year dead for tax evasion, yet still attending his reservation at Milliways, and the middlemen of the Golgafrinchans inhabiting the earth because we were too stupid to have evolved from simians.
The situation now is too flashy to draw his literary ire, other than to make it a footnote for some larger topic.
... and the time that the leader of one of the largest and most well-equipped superpowers of the world started a war costing millions of lives because he had been refused an honorary peace prize...
Last ww was about denying entry to arts school.
Ww IV would probably be because president Camacho went to Carl jr and they were out of vanilla shake or something