LoTR is the trippy afterglow of WWI and WWII propaganda. "Little Britainers" (hobbits, complete with British imperial tea, tobacco, and "china" ) need to get off their fat little seven-meals-per-day asses and go fight wars in distant foreign lands they don't understand, because muh good wizards and good kings and muh bad wizards and demonic dictators. Just like in the newspapers and on BBC radio. GoT is just ruthlessly disturbing. Propaganda for brutalist nihilism. Both good reasons to just steer clear of fantasy if you want to retain your sanity.

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Experience without embodiment is entertainment. Television was the first proto-metaverse. Before the internet dissolved reality, television did. Most of these “old people” aren’t witnesses - they’re inheritors of propaganda. The sacred act of witnessing was industrialized. Civilization’s memory is now algorithmic.

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