I innocently got my ears thoroughly boxed in my early days at ET with this Diary
One Ring to Rule Them All
Tolkien was apparently somewhat to the Right of Genghis Khan, and used the Ring as an analogy for the grip of gold-backed deficit-based money (and the "Jewish Conspiracy" yada yada).
It didn't make the analogy a bad one, but Muggins here didn't check his sources.
One could expect the same pummelling if venturing into commenting on Hitler's Economics, and so on..... "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
but i was only writing about the blind youthful idealism i was flooded with, ignorant of what i later learned.
Thanks for the perspective, which adds to the mystery. i still think it was amazing to create complete languages.
Reading the comments to your diary i now realize i've already stepped into a wormhole. What i don't understand is, i'm getting really old, so why haven't i become a reactionary? And why do i still treasure the insights i had as a young idiot to his tales? "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
I must say I thought it was also one of the rare occasions when the film did justice to the book.
I always thought it impossible to film, but Jackson proved me wrong..... "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky
as for the dividing line between genius and madness, i can't really address that, and neither can i. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
Oddly (according to some of the comments), I'm the technical type, yet I completely get your point.
Thanks for bringing up the subject, CH. paul spencer
