A bit of topic, but that reminds me of Isaac Asimov's Foundation. At one point, a politician comes, makes a big speech with lots of promises and everybody is ha

A bit of topic, but that reminds me of Isaac Asimov's Foundation. At one point, a politician comes, makes a big speech with lots of promises and everybody is happy, until a day-long sophisticated semantic analysis of the speech reveals that it was actually devoid of any meaningful content.