3 ms·
Reading LOTR as about technology is like reading Alice in Wonderland as about tea time ettiquette. For fuck's sake. LOTR makes its theme and conceits explicit
by popalchemist 2y ago
Reading LOTR as about technology is like reading Alice in Wonderland as about tea time ettiquette. For fuck's sake.
LOTR makes its theme and conceits explicit - it is about the appeal of power to the ego. Industrialization is an expression of that will to power, and its ability to magnify man's already-present distorted relationship with nature. That industry relies on technology does not make technology the central topic or even the target of critique.
Bone-headed take.
- golergka 2y agoReading is a creative process. You should not be bound by author's intention or by conventional knowledge about the material. If you approach it with a new perspective and get new ideas out of it, or even if it just means you have a good time, then it's worth it. In fact, Alice in Wonderland relationship to ettiquette, both at a tea table and in royal court, is a curious theme.
- popalchemist 2y agoWhile you can read anything as anything, not all readings are equally meritorious. Making an unmeritorious reading into the basis of a critique is a form of straw man.