I wonder…Is there a Vortex of Total Perspective somewhere on this world, being used as a means of swift & certain execution for the most heinous of criminals?.
The Vortex never worked for we are all, relativistically and pantheistically speaking, the center of the Universe. It wasn’t just Zaphod: for all of us it’s really huge, it’s amazingly huge, and all is centered in me. The only way you can get “total perspective” is by destroying the self (little death) and even then you can and do survive mentally almost intact, just a bit less full of yourself if anything.
There are definietly much worse punishments than “total perspective”.
If you’ll recall the Hitchhiker’s story during that particular section, Zaphod was inside of a computer-generated virtual reality that was specifically made for him. Indeed, that universe was “centered” on Zaphod specifically.
It was also explained to him afterward that he would NOT have survived the real Vortex in the real Universe. You can probably image how Zaphod’s ego took that bit of news…
This makes a twisted form of sense…is there anything stopping them from burning the recipe or just taking it back with them to their world? I doubt any of our guys have a photographic memory or such. Except maybe the ‘elf’. And there are options for dealing with her…like telling LP she’s a spider…
If the recipe wasn’t still around, how would they prove their legal ownership of it and prevent anyone else from discovering and using that combination of ingredients and techniques?
Woot?! You mean that you don’t dress in fried chicken suits and don’t burn fried chicken (TM) butchery byproduct methane for heating? That your home is not built out of chicken bones and feathers like every normal person’s?
There’s an OTR episode (I forget whether it’s Dimension X, X Minus 1 or one of the others) where a scientist has a theory about an economic snowball effect where as long as an organisation keeps recruiting, it can avoid collapse, and he chooses a women’s sewing circle as his guinea pig. The chair of the circle adheres to his advice, and after getting all the local sewers on board, begins to amalgamate with other local community group. Eventually, it reaches the point where every organisation on the planet has been amalgamated, and there have been no new members for nearly a month. But, luckily, they’re about to receive word from the recent Mars landing…
I can’t accept that the chicken franchise alone would wreck the economic stability of all those kingdoms. Farmers would prosper by growing more feed. Poultry farms would be rolling in money first by selling chicken to the franchises and chicken sh!t to the feed and produce farms. Then there’s the infrastructure needed to service the franchises – delivery vans and drivers, fuel for the fryers and oil to fry the chicken, road maintenance, tax collection, &c. Then there has to be someone to make the tubs, man the counter, fry the food, clean up; the list goes on. So even if they were the only fast food emporium, a lot of people would benefit from the economic stimulus. Technological advances would have to be implemented to improve farming techniques and business efficiency. It would probably kill or cripple the monarchies since capitalism and totalitarian regimes rarely co-exist. It might be possible that the danger isn’t from the recipe but from regimes nationalizing the business or instituting crippling regulations leading to unrest and civil war.
This is beginning to seem a bit familiar.
I wonder…Is there a Vortex of Total Perspective somewhere on this world, being used as a means of swift & certain execution for the most heinous of criminals?.
The Vortex never worked for we are all, relativistically and pantheistically speaking, the center of the Universe. It wasn’t just Zaphod: for all of us it’s really huge, it’s amazingly huge, and all is centered in me. The only way you can get “total perspective” is by destroying the self (little death) and even then you can and do survive mentally almost intact, just a bit less full of yourself if anything.
There are definietly much worse punishments than “total perspective”.
If you’ll recall the Hitchhiker’s story during that particular section, Zaphod was inside of a computer-generated virtual reality that was specifically made for him. Indeed, that universe was “centered” on Zaphod specifically.
It was also explained to him afterward that he would NOT have survived the real Vortex in the real Universe. You can probably image how Zaphod’s ego took that bit of news…
This makes a twisted form of sense…is there anything stopping them from burning the recipe or just taking it back with them to their world? I doubt any of our guys have a photographic memory or such. Except maybe the ‘elf’. And there are options for dealing with her…like telling LP she’s a spider…
If the recipe wasn’t still around, how would they prove their legal ownership of it and prevent anyone else from discovering and using that combination of ingredients and techniques?
I know it’s silly to expect basic econ 101 from fantasy world in LSRH – but really, “economically unviable to run *EVERY* other business”?
People have needs beyond food, and their capacity for food is limited…
“In the future, every restaurant is Taco Bell.”
…which keeps the manufacturers of the “three shells” system of waste disposal even *more* necessary. ;-)
Probably means all the businesses that are either in direct competition of, or that don’t contribute towards the success of the primary business.
Woot?! You mean that you don’t dress in fried chicken suits and don’t burn fried chicken (TM) butchery byproduct methane for heating? That your home is not built out of chicken bones and feathers like every normal person’s?
So who’s going to be the C’hik Fl’Ay to come along and challenge Pawpaye’s dominion?
Sounds a lot like the ‘shoe event horizon’ from the HHGTTG radio series. https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Shoe_Event_Horizon
Was thinking the same thing a fried chicken event horizon
every djinn should be sassy
He’s not a djinni, he’s a spirit guardian. Okay, *maybe* he’s also a djinni, but he hasn’t said so.
He looks like he’s had more than a few of these fried chicken meals, tho.
There’s an OTR episode (I forget whether it’s Dimension X, X Minus 1 or one of the others) where a scientist has a theory about an economic snowball effect where as long as an organisation keeps recruiting, it can avoid collapse, and he chooses a women’s sewing circle as his guinea pig. The chair of the circle adheres to his advice, and after getting all the local sewers on board, begins to amalgamate with other local community group. Eventually, it reaches the point where every organisation on the planet has been amalgamated, and there have been no new members for nearly a month. But, luckily, they’re about to receive word from the recent Mars landing…
“The Snowball Effect” by Katherine MacLean (who died 17 days ago!)
Delicios? I think you forgot the U on the second panel.
Or maybe, it’s an apostrophe that’s missing, and the fried chicken chain is run by the Delicio family.
And you don’t want to go against the Delicio family, if you value your health. Know what I mean?
I can’t accept that the chicken franchise alone would wreck the economic stability of all those kingdoms. Farmers would prosper by growing more feed. Poultry farms would be rolling in money first by selling chicken to the franchises and chicken sh!t to the feed and produce farms. Then there’s the infrastructure needed to service the franchises – delivery vans and drivers, fuel for the fryers and oil to fry the chicken, road maintenance, tax collection, &c. Then there has to be someone to make the tubs, man the counter, fry the food, clean up; the list goes on. So even if they were the only fast food emporium, a lot of people would benefit from the economic stimulus. Technological advances would have to be implemented to improve farming techniques and business efficiency. It would probably kill or cripple the monarchies since capitalism and totalitarian regimes rarely co-exist. It might be possible that the danger isn’t from the recipe but from regimes nationalizing the business or instituting crippling regulations leading to unrest and civil war.
Yes. That’s what we’ve been saying.
This story has been going on FOREVER and completely lost my interest.
So… Like LP you can’t see where this is going?
Ah. not Total Perspective Vortex, more the Shoe Event Horizon