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Crazy that there's a weapons company called Anduril as well
by DoktorDelta 4mo ago
Crazy that there's a weapons company called Anduril as well
- nickff 4mo agoWhy? Naming a weapons company after Aragorn's sword makes sense. "The Daily Beast" on the other hand is a rather cynical name...
- aldebaran1 4mo agoAnduril as a 'tech' weapons company is ironic. In the books, it is Saruman, with his "mind of metal and gears" who is the scientist and engineer. The sword Anduril powerful not because of technology but because of the craftsmanship of its make and the valor of its wielder.
- psd1 4mo ago"Techne", I've read, had a meaning of "craft". It referred to ceramics and weaving before, say, the antikythera device. If attic greek had the word "technologist", then a sword maker would be one
- scns 4mo agoCreative people seem to be rather pacifistic. Warmongers seem less so, they have to "borrow" from the creative ones.
- goldenarm 4mo agoAnduril is quite a positive name, it is a broken sword reforged later to save humankind. Quite a metaphor about western reindustrialization.
- Barrin92 4mo agoexcept of course that Tolkien, as a Catholic was quite adamant that he didn't write a story of Western chauvinism. The sword is not a metaphor for industrialization, which is quite literally the villain of the story, it's a symbol for restored kingship and hope.
- cmrdporcupine 4mo agoRight, and his concept of nobility and just kingship was about mercy love justice and a love of nature, good food, merriment, harmony, and treating others with respect. His works are full of cautionary tales of people who reached for immortality, power, self-aggrandizement, and control over others and fell as a result. (Though he was obsessed with lineage and blood quotients and pale skin)
- holistio 4mo agoIt's very difficult to judge the attitudes and held values of people who lived in the past - I mean the parentheses. We don't know how much of it is real flaw or corruption and how much is just the zeitgeist they lived in. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Musk's capital T today would end up becoming the beginning or turning point of a cautionary tale in the future. And, for better or worse, I know a lot of otherwise great and talented people who are still his fans.
- DaedalusII 4mo agotolkien largely copied the nibelungsenlied and accidentally inherited western chauvinism and many other ideas from that lore, including especially a great amount of racism
- lava_pidgeon 4mo agoNibelungenlied (not Nibelungsenlied) was racist? That needs a citation
- goldenarm 4mo agoYou misunderstood me, Palmer Luckey made a metaphor when picking the name, not Tolkien of course.
- alterom 4mo agoCrazy? It's backed by Thiel as well IIRC.
- inigyou 4mo agoI'd call my company Sauron's Eye (we'll figure out what the company does later), but sadly that's trademarked to the LOTR franchise.
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