The quote is from Orwell’s 1984. The proles are generally ignorant, but good at tracking lottery numbers because it is a game. That’s right, I just generalized from fictional evidence!
I figured if people are going to complain about the Burns quote, I’d give them something to really complain about. Wrong book with a date as a title, wrong author of an Odyssey, wrong language.
Fantasy sports is a great example of where this would be useful, and I can’t think of a better analogy.
The quote is from Orwell’s 1984. The proles are generally ignorant, but good at tracking lottery numbers because it is a game. That’s right, I just generalized from fictional evidence!
I figured if people are going to complain about the Burns quote, I’d give them something to really complain about. Wrong book with a date as a title, wrong author of an Odyssey, wrong language.
Fantasy sports is a great example of where this would be useful, and I can’t think of a better analogy.