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?
“At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus”
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???
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
They not only know, they’re gloating over it and rubbing it in
I think that’s related to conservatives having really poor critical analysis skills. Some of them probably unironicly think Sauron was the hero
How so? Just because they pretend to use unreliable elven magic?
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.
I mean tbf dystopian science fiction pretty much emerged as a critique of capitalism, so the only surprising thing here is how close they got it.
tfw dystopian science fiction is your favourite genre!
Hell yeah, 2025 has been fucking crazy for us. AI in the military, threat of nuclear annihilation, technomancers, billionaires have enslaved humanity, and huge corporations run the world!
It’s dystopian af!!!
Capitalist narrative is who deals best with dystopia is the hero vs. who brings changes to prevent it.
Somebody’s clearly been skipping neck day at the gym
