Then they'd beam down to an oval of gravel with 6 big rocks in the back : every week. 'Oh Captain, strong deja-vu here.' And they'd get out these machines: Widly-we widly-we widly-we widly-we widly-we 'Captain, this entire planet is made of widly-we. And so are you Captain, and Chekov, and Sulu, and Uhura, and everything we've ever thought of is widly-we. I think this might just be a box with widly-we written on it.''
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Izzard mocks sci-fi aliens reducing everything to a single meaningless material.
- In plain terms
- Aliens claim everything is made of one random thing.
- What can you take from it?
- Complex things often get simplified incorrectly by outsiders.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How much can we simplify reality?
- What do we assume we know?
Another view
It treats fictional concepts too literally for serious analysis.
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