A crudely drawn pastel version of the “Is this a butterfly” meme

A character labeled CAPITALISM is pointing to a book labeled DYSTOPIAN SCIENCE-FICTION, while asking IS THIS A TUTORIAL?

https://thebad.website/comic/is_this_capitalism

  • scintilla@beehaw.orgEnglish
    12·
    11 hours ago

    I still can’t belive there is an actual surveillance company named plantir.

    They have to know that they are the bad guys in the story after that right???

    • Bad@jlai.luOPEnglish
      16·
      11 hours ago

      Literally one thing I expected from capitalism’s abusive systems was the Tolkien estate saying “nah bruvs get a new name you suck” and they didn’t even do that smh

    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      2·
      7 hours ago

      I think that’s related to conservatives having really poor critical analysis skills. Some of them probably unironicly think Sauron was the hero

      • qarbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        7 hours ago

        A risk lay in the fact that users with sufficient power could choose what to show and what to conceal to other stones: in The Lord of the Rings, a palantír has fallen into the Enemy’s hands, making the usefulness of all other existing stones questionable.

        They aren’t just “unreliable”. They are consistently described as a tool that it is misguided to use or trust because of how suspectible it is to being manipulated and how readily it, in turn, poisons the user. If a user isn’t wary, their world-view – when informed through the palantír – will be malformed through projected half-truths and misdirections.

        Even if the “concept” of a palantír is neutral (saying nothing about a magical device that enables imperceptible surveillance), it is an astounding failure of literary analysis to not get why Tolkien included them as they are – with their consistent, negative representation – in his books.