> > On 30 Dec 2016, at 12:49 pm, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 07:57:31PM +1100, Kim Jones wrote: >> >> I don’t think that only mature-age people think that the fact that Donald >> Trump got elected is weird. Perhaps your theory can be ramped up another >> tier: not only does the world seem weird to the elderly but the more human >> civilisation ages the weirder it actually does become in some real sense. It >> feels a bit weird living in a pre-Donald Trump universe. Surely this >> weirdness is real and a metric of something >> > > Speaking of Trump, Douglas Adams wrote of a similar situation in > Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy with the election of Zaphod Beeblebrox > as President of the Galaxy. His first act as president was to steal > the Heart of Gold spaceship he was supposed to be inaugurating. > > I wonder what Trump will do when he takes office?
Indeed. The very question, when applied to Trump, strikes me as weird. Might be what Telmo is talking about. I mean, it's natural to expect that a new POTUS would make important changes. But with Donny, everyone is kind of expecting that he will do terrifying things not long after he takes office that will upset lots of people and that's pretty weird, don't you think? Normally you would be excited or proud or inspired by the prospect of a new POTUS - not apprehensive and fear-ridden - and this on both sides; across the entire political spectrum, people are churning away at fear and loathing. Is it safe to say we've never been here before and that's probably the weirdest part of it? Kim -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
