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There's plenty of culture, music, and art in Star Trek- from Sulu's bonsai to Spock's lute playing to a lot missions based around seeing what some remote archae
by panzagl 11y ago
There's plenty of culture, music, and art in Star Trek- from Sulu's bonsai to Spock's lute playing to a lot missions based around seeing what some remote archaeologist is up to.
As for the article, it seems kind of self-explanatory: Tolkien's created nostalgia-based mythology is similar to ISIS' created nostalgia-based mythology. Main difference is that Tolkien actually lived in pre-WWI Britain, no one in ISIS lived during the Caliphate.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> Tolkien's created nostalgia-based mythology is similar to ISIS' created nostalgia-based mythology. Main difference is that Tolkien actually lived in pre-WWI Britain, no one in ISIS lived during the Caliphate. Another main difference is no significant group is selling Tolkien's fantasy as reality and the basis for running real societies (outside of other fictional works, notably S. M. Stirling's "Novels of the Change".)