The Hobbit is a children’s book, and the fact that so many grown people find the syntax and language difficult just further shows how far we’ve fallen from a cliff intellectually since it was first published in 1937.
The most interesting thing in the broader story - an ongoing collapse of the game industry that is now utterly stuffed with women and gender goblins who hate the customers - is how this happened at all these studios at once
Understanding that is key to understanding why merchants cannot fight priests
The merchant mentality is "well, these are the market conditions now" and the progressive priesthood knows that if they succeed in their efforts across an entire industry there'll be no alternative that can reveal the lack of memetic power of the priestly consensus
Progressivism is priestly in nature and relies on the idea of being on the side of the "spirit of history" and is always terrified of being revealed as trying to push a fake consensus
The most interesting thing in the broader story - an ongoing collapse of the game industry that is now utterly stuffed with women and gender goblins who hate the customers - is how this happened at all these studios at once
Understanding that is key to understanding why merchants cannot fight priests
The merchant mentality is "well, these are the market conditions now" and the progressive priesthood knows that if they succeed in their efforts across an entire industry there'll be no alternative that can reveal the lack of memetic power of the priestly consensus
Progressivism is priestly in nature and relies on the idea of being on the side of the "spirit of history" and is always terrified of being revealed as trying to push a fake consensus