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A fantasy story described a utopian society in which the President has absolute power and absolute freedom to make state decisions. The President always carries a sniper rifle, with which he is free to kill anyone who appears suspicious or strange enough....
In all public places there are red buttons. Pressing them activates the detonator for the mini-bomb built into the president's collar - the symbol of absolute power...
Society is satiated and content with its life. There is no crime. The only inconvenience is too frequent presidential elections - but this is a temporary phenomenon, society is just learning to be free in its thoughts and actions.
Robert Sheckley. "Ticket to Planet Tranay", if I'm not mistaken...
http://lib.aldebaran.ru/author/shekli_robert/shekli_robert_bilet_na_planetu_tranai/
"... All civil servants," Melit explained, "wear a medallion, a symbol of power, stuffed with a certain amount of tessium, an explosive substance you may have heard of. The charge is controlled by radio from the Citizen's Reception Room. Every citizen has access to the Reception if they wish to express dissatisfaction with the government. - Melit sighs......"(c)
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R. Sheckley's works are read 'without tearing away'. Here's another of his novels, a curious one:
The Planet Where It's All Upside Down! The bad is considered good and the good bad! The inhabitants are obliged to drink, do drugs, rob, etc..., i.e. to commit crimes all the time. Otherwise, punishment by law!
Status civilisation http://lib.aldebaran.ru/author/shekli_robert/shekli_robert_civilizaciya_statusa/
Robert Sheckley. "Ticket to Planet Tranay," if I'm not mistaken...
http://lib.aldebaran.ru/author/shekli_robert/shekli_robert_bilet_na_planetu_tranai/
О! Thank you. This looks like it.
Yeah, I told it a little differently, but I got it right.
О! Oh, thank you. I think that's it.
Yeah, I told it a little differently, but I got it right.
Hee.
1. The 60-hour week -- whose project?
2. Wild Russophobia -- whose project?
3. "Excellent medicine and education" -- excuse me, didn't the likes of the Prokhorovs make it go somewhere?
4. Pensions for the elderly, where have they gone?
And so on with all the stops.
Don't you get tired of "freedom" yet, citizens?
Not fed up with "freedom" yet, eh, citizens?
Honey, everyone has their own "freedom".
Honey, everyone has their "freedom."
That's for sure.
100,000 children die from drugs every year - is that the kind of freedom you want for yourself and your children?
At least we got the troops out of Afghanistan, stopped the senseless slaughter. Really?
Truly, some people live to gray balls and their brains are pure hamsters.
That's for sure.
100,000 children die from drugs every year - is that the kind of freedom you want for yourself and your children?
At least we got the troops out of Afghanistan, stopped the senseless slaughter. Really?
Truly, some people live to be gray and their brains are pure hamsters.
Honey, no one is stopping you from voting for Putin.
Don't you worry so much.
By the way, have you ever given birth to anyone or are you worried about "children in general"?
At least we got the troops out of Afghanistan, stopped this senseless massacre. Really?
By the way, until they were taken out, they were dying there - those eighteen- to twenty-year-olds.
Or is that not the problem?
The drug problem shouldn't be solved in Afghanistan.