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> Was Tolkien right leaning himself, I would be surprised by that but I honestly don’t know. Yes, but the small-c conservative Catholic sort of right-wing. He
by hither_shores 4y ago
> Was Tolkien right leaning himself, I would be surprised by that but I honestly don’t know.
Yes, but the small-c conservative Catholic sort of right-wing. He would have hated reactionary modernists like Thiel.
- inawarminister 4y agoIndeed, but from the other way around. Tolkien hates industrialization, he hates technology as a whole. He hates GRRM-esque "Does Aragorn have a tax policy that make sense?". So he would hate Thiel and Luckey for their technology and control, who is like Sauron and the Orcs. Maybe more on Luckey, since Virtual Reality would be a horror show from a traditionalist mind, anyway. But it's fine, since the entire point of the Sagas for Anglo culture is for the people in it to twist it the way they want to, after all.