\u201cIt comes from a very ancient democracy, you see\u2026\u201d
\n \u201cYou mean, it comes from a world of lizards?\u201d
\n \u201cNo,\u201d said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, \u201cnothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.\u201d
\n \u201cOdd,\u201d said Arthur, \u201cI thought you said it was a democracy.\u201d
\n \u201cI did,\u201d said Ford. \u201cIt is.\u201d
\n \u201cSo,\u201d said Arthur, hoping he wasn\u2019t sounding ridiculously obtuse, \u201cwhy don\u2019t people get rid of the lizards?\u201d
\n \u201cIt honestly doesn\u2019t occur to them,\u201d said Ford. \u201cThey\u2019ve all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they\u2019ve voted in more or less approximates to the government they want.\u201d
\n \u201cYou mean they actually vote for the lizards?\u201d
\n \u201cOh yes,\u201d said Ford with a shrug, \u201cof course.\u201d
\n \u201cBut,\u201d said Arthur, going for the big one again, \u201cwhy?\u201d
\n \u201cBecause if they didn\u2019t vote for a lizard,\u201d said Ford, \u201cthe wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?\u201d
\n \u201cWhat?\u201d
\n \u201cI said,\u201d said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, \u201chave you got any gin?\u201d
\n \u201cI\u2019ll look. Tell me about the lizards.\u201d
\n Ford shrugged again.
\n \u201cSome people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happenned to them,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone\u2019s got to say it.\u201d
\n \u201cBut that\u2019s terrible,\u201d said Arthur.
\n \u201cListen, bud,\u201d said Ford, \u201cif I had one Altairian dollar for every time I heard one bit of the Universe look at another bit of the Universe and say \u2018That\u2019s terrible\u2019 I wouldn\u2019t be sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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