tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857536998475120271.post3324185587162898206..comments2023-06-17T12:12:09.966-04:00Comments on Dweomera Lagomorpha: They still refuse to see it! Lagomorph Rexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06385231158384929598noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857536998475120271.post-4373836650803979882012-12-28T23:26:13.956-05:002012-12-28T23:26:13.956-05:00That's about right Michal... Progress can be u...That's about right Michal... Progress can be used to great good.. and mostly we use it for evil. I'm reminded of the bit in Carl Sagan's Cosmos when he is talking about the old Orion space system.. which would have used Nuclear Weapons, detonated against a solid plate, to "Putt-putt" it's way across the cosmos.. and he says "It's the best use of Nuclear Weapons we've yet devised" or something to that effect. Lagomorph Rexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06385231158384929598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857536998475120271.post-18101380033002434262012-12-28T03:22:56.321-05:002012-12-28T03:22:56.321-05:00Perhaps Mr. Jacobs should watch Charlie Chaplin...Perhaps Mr. Jacobs should watch Charlie Chaplin's <i>The Great Dictator</i> and therefore understand what Tolkien was warning against:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcvjoWOwnn4Michalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02198881279554204600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857536998475120271.post-65180716496210556102012-11-30T19:13:52.196-05:002012-11-30T19:13:52.196-05:00Unfortunately many critics--like the jackass who w...Unfortunately many critics--like the jackass who wrote the trashy "Last Ringbearer"--have zero subtlety. You have to be "for" unbridled progress and unfettered technology, or "against" it. As you pointed in your post, and as I've argued before, Tolkien was not anti-technology. The rings of power can be seen in fact as a form of beneficent technology--until the One Ring, aka technology without restraint--corrupted them. Tolkien believed that men are more important than machines, and that the natural world was worth preserving. Apparently that makes him a luddite. I'd say it makes him sane.Brian Murphyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05563309422791320114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-857536998475120271.post-60617790918572934472012-11-30T17:01:03.563-05:002012-11-30T17:01:03.563-05:00Agreed. It's funny how context get's skewe...Agreed. It's funny how context get's skewed.nephite blood spartan hearthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17092519999184585295noreply@blogger.com