• blakestacey@awful.systemsM
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    11 months ago

    I’m disappointed that they never (to my knowledge) tried to justify the purchase by saying they needed a castle to build a fortified base that would be safe against marauders in the event of civilizational collapse. The return on investment for keeping a catastrophic failure from becoming an existential one is (handwave, handwave) at least 10^69.

    “We need a castle for Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Beyond Thunderdome” would, at least, be on brand.

    • Mike Knell@blat.at
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      11 months ago

      @blakestacey More fool them. Wytham Abbey’s basically just a big house, not fortified at all, and it’s close enough to the centre of Oxford that they’ll be easily overrun by the first wave of pitchfork-wielding mathematicians who decide they’ve finally had it with their faux-intellectual bullshit.