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Саурон, звісно, диктатор, але чи достатньо ми зробили, щоб зрозуміти його дитячі травми????
🗞 Новий сезон серіалу "Володар перснів: Персні влади" відійде від звичного жорстокого зображення орків у творах Толкіна: один із них, зокрема, зрадить Саурона і перейде на бік ельфів. Шоуранери прагнуть показати персонажа зі складними мотивами, якому "можуть співчувати глядачі".
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LOTR is arguably the single greatest example of moral realism in all of literature.
Injecting moral relativism into Middle Earth fundamentally misunderstands Tolkien and flies in the face of everything he stood for.
And don't come at me with 'moral complexity.'
Relativism isn't complexity. It's confusion. It's a collapse of distinctions that has nothing to offer but meaninglessness and despair.
In order to have meaningful 'moral complexity,' you have to establish a distiction between light and dark, right and wrong, good and evil. The complexity arises among characters that must navigate a world where both forces act around, upon, and within them.
What modern Hollywood calls 'moral complexity' is actually just the erasing the distinction between good and evil.
If a story can't show you light and dark, it can't say anything meaningful about them. Classic storytellers understood this. Modern Hollywood has completely memory holed it.
[NEWS] “Marnûkh is a character meant to challenge long-held perceptions of Orcs. He’s such a departure from past depictions that within the production, Marnûkh has picked up the catchy nickname, “the Orc with an arc.”
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до телефона допустили історика
NEW: Vladimir Putin spent most of his call with the leaders of Finland and Norway ranting about Slavic history, underscoring Europe's tough task backing Ukraine in peace talks.
The planned 20-minute call dragged on for 90. A ceasefire barely came up:
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Fire Point’s leadership has lied so much that it seems to have lost track of where reality ends and fiction begins, and where it should have kept its mouth shut instead of talking about salo and milftech.
P.S. It’s genuinely frustrating to see the work of hundreds of employees, scientists, and operators being completely undermined by such disastrous communications.
Shocking text. “We think it’s safer to wait for the Russians (...) Stay safe". That was the French ambassador in Kyiv, writing to the European ambassadors’ Signal group on 24 February 2022, as explosions were already going off in the city. Lots of EU States participated in this most important diplomatic, military and analytical blunder of this age). For 3 months Dutch intelligence kept telling Prime Minister Rutte that an invasion was “unlikely". The agencies relied on a "trusted source" near the Kremlin who turned out to know nothing, because Putin shared the plan with maybe 10 people. USA put the Russian attack plan on the table. Western EU dismissed it. 12 hours before the tanks crossed the border, Russian forces had already changed how they communicated. But the official Dutch assessment still said war was merely “possible". The head of Germany’s BND was asleep in a Kyiv hotel when bombing started. Fled in a panic. Kept his job.
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金浦市の愛妓峰展望台から122mm自走砲と思われる自走砲がカメラに捉えられるほど南下しているらしい。砲身からして100mm対戦車砲のように見えるのだが……
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(як вони заїбали своїм "пітун застосує ядерку, от точно, всьо точно, ядерка, червоні лінії, пок-пок, ядерку пустить)
Tucker Carlson thinks there’s a 50 per cent chance Putin will use a nuclear weapon in the next six months — “believe me, I talk to the Russians a lot”.
Great interview by @ahauslohner
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