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There is a comfort I am finding in realizing that the Beltway Bandit class would consider me, and my simple back woods living ways, just white trash to be ignored.

Why comfort?

Because there is tremendous power in being underestimated, overlooked, and ignored.

Or did you think the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings were not allegorical?

I mean...

The Ring of Power, designed to centralize all power under itself, which corrupts all who wield it and bends them to its will, is taken by a small, unimportant person who the enemy will ignore, and is thrown back into hell where it belongs.

Seems kinda allegorical.

Tolkien was a close friend of C.S. Lewis, and self confessed anarchist after all...

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a source familiar with the matter 2y ago

There's a metaphor from Yarvin/Moldbug that I like for this.

The political predators are lions, and people who want to fight them and take over are would-be lions.

Yarvin wants to be a water buffalo. He doesn't want to fight the lions. He doesn't want anything to do with the lions.

I think this is basically the right attitude - although perhaps we can be porcupines (poky) or elephants (too damn big) or something else that is not appetizing prey for lions.

The Servile Statist 2y ago

Ring-Men North of Angband

atyh 2y ago

🏆

for you

Duncan Cary Palmer 2y ago

That's all I could want from the state, really... Just to be left alone.

If only...

atyh 2y ago

Appearing too small for them to notice works 😏

For a while.

Nope Noperson 2y ago

I hadn't heard Tolkien was an anarchist. I'll have to do some digging. Looks like a letter to his son?

Oftening 2y ago

... and makes you invisible 😆

atyh 2y ago

The Ring magnified whatever attribute the wearer had naturally. For Frodo, it was being overlooked. So he became actually invisible with the Ring. Because power magnifies character.

Looking deeper makes life better.

Oftening 2y ago

Sometimes worse is better, right?

atyh 2y ago

https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html

🤓

Oftening 2y ago

Interesting article. Thanks for the info. It leaves me a lot confused, not gonna lie 😅