11/09/2024
I’m rereading Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. It’s a great book if you haven’t read it. If you don’t read, the movie did a really great job of the source material. I just read this passage that made me burst out laughing:
“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.”
