These quotes show how anti-progress and reactionary Tolkien was. He hated machines, he hated housing construction, he hated innovation. He would condemn humanity to be tenant farmers ruled by a warrior aristocracy at a medieval tech level, forever. If you want to live in Tolkien’s utopia, move to Zambia.
Basically, Tolkien is very much like the Unabomber. He saw real problems, but his proposed solutions are destructive. He was a master of using the bouba–kiki effect to incept his worldview in the minds of millions, so he did far more to stop progress than the Unabomber ever did. He bears significant responsibility for the productivity slowdown, and for your rent being too damn high.
I mean, I think you are right about him being anti-progress and fantasy-proposing terrible ‘solutions’ to real problems. I don’t think you are correct to give him so much credit for productivity slowdown. I think his effect is quite a bit more minor than that. I think the productivity slowdown is mostly due to weird unanticipated long term downstream effects of our government structure, land use rules, tax structures, and a tendency towards veto-ochracy.
He was a master of using the bouba–kiki effect to incept his worldview in the minds of millions, so he did far more to stop progress than the Unabomber ever did. He bears significant responsibility for the productivity slowdown, and for your rent being too damn high.
These quotes show how anti-progress and reactionary Tolkien was. He hated machines, he hated housing construction, he hated innovation. He would condemn humanity to be tenant farmers ruled by a warrior aristocracy at a medieval tech level, forever. If you want to live in Tolkien’s utopia, move to Zambia.
Basically, Tolkien is very much like the Unabomber. He saw real problems, but his proposed solutions are destructive. He was a master of using the bouba–kiki effect to incept his worldview in the minds of millions, so he did far more to stop progress than the Unabomber ever did. He bears significant responsibility for the productivity slowdown, and for your rent being too damn high.
I mean, I think you are right about him being anti-progress and fantasy-proposing terrible ‘solutions’ to real problems. I don’t think you are correct to give him so much credit for productivity slowdown. I think his effect is quite a bit more minor than that. I think the productivity slowdown is mostly due to weird unanticipated long term downstream effects of our government structure, land use rules, tax structures, and a tendency towards veto-ochracy.
Wait what?
Can you elaborate on this?