Man people are actually mad about this to a degree that's kind of baffling to me, in defense of a version of HHGG that, as a fan, I don't really recognize You know HHGG was the original edgelord nihilistic science fiction thing right It starts with everyone on Earth dyinghttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1222246557228994560 …
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Yeah, but I think that's a significant one! Horror/trauma is a different reaction to cynicism than absurd indifference.
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That's exactly what got me thinking about it though The first big thing in HHGG is Arthur having to deal with this profoundly detailed experience of the trauma of the Earth being destroyed and no one else giving a shit, even Ford
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Eccentrica Gallumbits, the triple-breasted whore of Eroticon Six The Magrathea catalogue containing an actual boob planet as the punchline The rape joke in Life the Universe and Everything describing the party and the Krikkitmen ship as two ducks mating in midair Etc
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Once we get to Krikkit, I think the series becomes much bleaker and, you're right, a clearer predecessor to R&M.
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My generation encountered these stories as teenagers in the 1980s. When you're a teenager, a pose of edgy nonchalance at any shocking thing is very attractive. Especially in the 1980s.
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I feel that nihilism - or at least detached irony - is a Gen X thing, for good or ill. Mostly ill.
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