• The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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    11 hours ago

    It’s all been repeated allegories for the horrors of colonialism. Over and over and over again. Yet some particularly powerful dipshits read something like Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, let’s say, and miss that it’s an allegory for South African Apartheid and how it’s bad. They get to focused on the idea of a space ship with an improbability engine named the Heart of Gold.

    Why I bring up this particular example I’ll leave to the reader to decide

      • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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        10 hours ago

        It can be two things. But part of why the humor lands is that we all kind of get the idea of a foreign power showing up somewhere and destroying an entire culture for a golf course or highway or whatever. It’s a joke that has eternal value thanks to its real critique of something horrible.

        • Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world
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          8 hours ago

          Huh, I always thought it was a commentary on general bureaucracy, that systems are too complex that it doesn’t allow for a person to have a voice for there own protection, but South African Apartheid probably makes more sense.