@RedTeamReview I agree she’s nuts, but she was adressing the huge wintry elephant in the room.
grrm playing the victim and being a diva doesnt suit him.
Yes the Emperor has no clothes (ie his intellectual hubris or dispersion wont let him finish his masterpiece)
@gunrightscr No importa cuál conglomerado tenga los derechos. Mientras los ideales de la sociedad sigan enfermos van pervertir el Señor de los Anillos y la Tierra Media.
The lesson that Ross Douthat is giving all podcasters and would-be podcasters is that it's not enough to email a publicist, land a guest, and just ask "So tell me why you wrote this book." That's a waste of everyone's time. Instead, do the work to be able to answer that yourself.
Even the parts of it that might appear plausible and enlightened from a purely secular standpoint have turned out rotten and reactionary, also from a purely secular standpoint. By substituting the Bible for the sacrament, it created a pedantic caste of those who could read, superstitiously identified with those who could think. By destroying the monks, it took social work from the poor philanthropists who chose to deny themselves, and gave it to the rich philanthropists who chose to assert themselves. By preaching individualism while preserving inequality, it produced modern capitalism. It destroyed the only league of nations that ever had a chance. It produced the worst wars of nations that ever existed. It produced the most efficient form of Protestantism, which is Prussia. And it is producing the worst part of paganism, which is slavery.