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0 pointsxg151y ago0 comments

I find it uncanny how much the ring's effects on its wearers match modern smartphone addiction, and how much the working mode of Denethor's corrupted palantir match the way modern disinformation works.

Makes me think that, as with SciFi dystopias, they took LOTR as an instruction manual instead of a cautionary tale.

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HeatrayEnjoyer1y ago

Conservatives have the media literacy of a dead chicken.

See: necessity of writers of The Boys making it increasingly obvious that homelander & co are are the bad guys. So many conservatives are stunned when they learn homelander is directly written based on trump.

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0 pointsxg151y ago0 comments

Makes me think that, as with SciFi dystopias, they took LOTR as an instruction manual instead of a cautionary tale.

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HeatrayEnjoyer1y ago

Conservatives have the media literacy of a dead chicken.

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