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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Robots - the First Law implies any robot actually aware of the world has no choice but to take over the world
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Result: the world of Foundation is because humans live in the Matrix manipulated by godlike robot masters
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"Computers" are ridiculously primitive in Foundation bc the AI overlords won't permit competition
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