Once again we are forced to contemplate our own dystopian future, when earth's population has been driven into its catacombs by the great idiot wars, and the urine distilleries that provide our only source of drinking water are controlled by an army of psychopathic mercenaries.
Prescott, comments one such, "like all the great idiots of history, was always willing to burn the world for a toy, a prayer, a cross, a thimble".
1977 also saw the debut album from Hamburg's Big Balls and the Great White Idiot, arguably West Germany's first punk band.
Ah, no, that's a shame: says here our country's spies are actually great clanging idiots, whirling their arms blindly into a cocktail waiter at the swanky party, getting Martini all down their tuxedo, asking someone to remind them of the rules at a poker game, thinking brownface is a legitimate and subtle method of subterfuge.
His greatest albums, The Idiot and Lust for Life, were the result.
He wasn't the only one who thought that industrial society was turning out too many idiots, and he was on the side of the angels, or seemed so, in proclaiming that one of the greatest dangers the idiots posed was that they might elect dictators.
Tattoo artists themselves are usually great at interpreting idiot customer's ideas.
Lately, he's been on the e-mail circuit with a prediction that is supposed to go like this: Come the millennium, month 12 In the home of greatest power The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader.
