By Hannes Stein (Die Welt)
As not everyone is a fan of science fiction, an explanation is in order to start: Hari Seldon is one of the characters of the novels "
Foundation
»From Isaac Asimov. Hari Seldon is a genius mathematician who has two absolute certainties in life. First: the galactic empire in which he lives, and whose power and wealth seem to know no limits, is bound to collapse. Thousands of years of civil war and barbarism will follow. Second: Hari Seldon knows he's deadly. Weak, old, sick and stuck in a wheelchair, he won't be long. Seldon then hatches a plan that will survive his own existence and the Galactic Empire, a plan whereby the era of chaos that follows the fall of the Empire will last only a thousand years. To me, Joe Biden, the 46th President of the United States, is sort of Hari Seldon. Like the prophet out of the imagination ofAsimov,
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