First came the Clarke Axiom, named after the guy who coined it, science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke:
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Now we have Maciej Ceglowski’s brilliant quip from the #joiito IRC channel:
Any sufficiently advanced society is indistinguishable from Canada.
Clever, and at least partly true.
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I SO have to start hanging out in that channel
Sadly, the U.S. is increasingly easy to distinguish from Canada....
I prefer Ambrose Bierce's take on the issue:
"Man, n. An animal [whose]...chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada." Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)