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Why Silicon Valley's Most Powerful People Are So Obsessed with Hobbits

• Ginger-Pickles 1y ago
  https://archive.ph/hoz8N https://archive.ph/hoz8N
• rhet0rica 1y ago
  TL;DR: They've Death Of The Authored the books so hard that they just see a power fantasy. In their minds, it's a crime that the Hobbits wanted to be rid of the One Ring. Also, Giorgia Meloni and Aleksandr Dugin are mentioned as idolizing simple rural "tradition." Hitler also did this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTfbBvIEbfA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTfbBvIEbfA Not mentioned in the article: there is a home security system unironically called Sauron: https://www.paraform.com/company/sauron https://www.paraform.com/company/sauron — "A Palantír is a dangerous tool, Peter Thiel." "Why? Why should we fear to use it?" "They are not all accounted for, the lost Seeing Stones. We do not know who else may be watching!"
• bluesounddirect 1y ago
  why can we have someone obsessed with C. Debussy: Claire de lune from Suite bergamasqu ?
• rufus_foreman 1y ago
  Oh for fuck's sake, this might be the most ridiculous NY Times headline ever, and there's some serious competition for that title.
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