Asimov said he himself was doubtful that such a thing could ever exist and stacked the deck to make it seem possible
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A Galactic Empire with trillions of people where history on individual planets doesn't matter much
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and the "analysis" in Foundation is just him ripping off the actual history of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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in any case just like the robot stories are abt deconstructing the Three Laws, same w psychohistory
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the Foundation books are ultimately about how psychohistory fails and the Foundation cheats
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(I just realized the Foundation shares its name with the SCP Foundation)
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(both shadowy organizations of Men in Black manipulating regular people for their own good)
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anyway it's a mild spoiler but a ton of people have said Donald Trump's election feels exactly like the rise of the Mule
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the shocking moment when all the expert models are completely wrong
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ALSO: the much later retcon smushing the Robot and Foundation books together was controversial but I liked it
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because like you I was always suspicious of psychohistory in the first place
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it solves the two big central problems of both series
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Foundation - psychohistory can't work without absurdly powerful managers to keep things on track
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