It's all about head and neck: Here someone is on trial as an enemy of the state because he openly says that a future calamity, which he knows about based on irrefutable calculations, can no longer be averted, no matter how willing the prognosis of the mighty or the powerless is to be believed and how quickly they act.
The man claims that after the surefire collapse of civilization, a quintillion people, scattered on millions of worlds between the spiral arms of the Milky Way, expect a full thirty thousand years of barbarism - unless he and forty thousand handpicked helpers are allowed to store all available human knowledge in secure storage focus.
Dietmar Dath
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Then there would come the horrible darkness of stupidity and violence, which has to bury all culture and morals under itself, anyway, but would only have to last a thousand instead of thirty thousand years because instructions for use would be available for a more meaningful and more beautiful life. The defendant does not mention that his thousand-year plan is actually only carrying the archival project described as a camouflage. In reality, he has long been leading a secret progressive party whose multi-generational strategy must range from technical to religious to economic policy, under the pressure of a crisis that has already been calculated in advance.
The man's name is Hari Seldon. It was invented eighty years ago by the writer Isaac Asimov for his story cycle about the “Foundation” (ie “basis” or “foundation”; the word denotes the aforementioned millennium conspiracy). Various attempts to film the "Foundation" saga ran against different walls. Now AppleTV + is risking the gamble as a stream; the "old raven" Seldon plays Jared Harris, known as the class-conscious survival beating Anderson Dawes in "The Expanse". David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman, creators of the adaptation, don't just entrust Asimov's material to Hari Seldon on how to put a great story into the hands of a hero, but first of all to the voice of a young thinker named Gaal Dornick,who likes to whisper rows of prime numbers in the dark and has won a maths competition on her backward home star. So she is now allowed to travel to the main world of galactic civilization, to Trantor, in order to take up a position at Seldon.
He immediately tells her the dark prophetic consequences of his new mathematical discipline, "psychohistory", a synthesis of probability theory, econometrics and political arithmetic.
This teaching knows a lot about crowds and almost nothing about individuals.
The distance between the large statistical painting and the individual clever young woman functions as a model for the whole show: Gaal Dornick immediately announces off-screen that solitaires with names like "Salvor Hardin" or "The Mule" will walk, or better: the Fall will have a decisive impact on history.