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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.
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 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
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.
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 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
This is just “misery loves company” with more words.
As they say, “misery loves company.”
He was so in despair he started eating tomatoes absolutely unhinged
