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And the people proselytizing despair get away with it because toxic positivity has been such a powerful negative force. Hope isn’t smiles and ignorance, it’s riding to the black gate trusting that Frodo and Sam are doing their jobs even though you can’t personally see them.
I like your take on hope. Doing your part hoping the rest of your battle group is doing theirs too.
It relies on trust, which there is also too little of nowadays.
doomscrolling the palantir
What a brilliant image and very in keeping with Tolkien’s disdain for modern technology. Sauron using technology to run a psyop on Gondor, and it worked.
I think this is because we’re missing our Aragorn. We need someone to rally us and nobody has yet risen to do so.
Sounds like Greta
Too bad she doesn’t have an awesome sword
YET
mamdani winning NYC is pretty big imo. open socialist winning major seat in what is probably the most corrupt/good olde boys city in the USA (tied with like…boston, maybe)?
US is at inflection point, everyone just waiting for trump to die in vain hope that things “return to normal” (ie. unsustainable ratfucking).
when that doesn’t happen, shit goes from bad to worse…then we either get a massive progressive wave or amerikkka for the elections this year.
most corrupt/good olde boys city in the USA
that would be chicago
huh, have any events/books on this you’d recommend to read up on the topic? every US city has their shitty internal politics but outside looking in Chicago seems better than NYC in that respect
maybe i’m just showing my age and haven’t been keeping up with current news. i just remember it being some sort of a common knowledge thing. i also want to know more (specifically about tammany hall and the federalist society and yes i know that that’s new york but it’s totally related). i mean this is wikipedia
My eyes roll out of my skull every time I see some “humanity is doomed, it’s our nature to kill ourselves, if only we weren’t so selfish and shortsighted” spiel, which always ignores the actual structural causes of the problems in favor of some weepy original sin diagnosis.
I don’t understand why they removed Denethor’s Palantir from the movies, it’s like the whole point of his character, without it nothing he does makes sense
I wouldn’t say it doesn’t make sense. Movie Denethor looks like someone who has completed and utterly cracked under stress.
Not only did his favoured son die, but he died after not wanting to go to Rivendell and Denethor forcing him to go and take the ring. Denethor blames himself for the death of Boromir.
Add to that the fear and pressure of bordering Mordor at a time when he knows Sauron is preparing for war and your city is right on their doorstep, it doesn’t seem that crazy that he cracked.
He certainly has more depth in the book, and there’s more sympathy towards him, but he still makes sense in the films IMO.
This is just “misery loves company” with more words.
He was so in despair he started eating tomatoes absolutely unhinged
As they say, “misery loves company.”
