A hundredth re-read of the LotR - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

wispeight · 09-12-2008, 08:22 PM

I think that was a great writing. I need to find out more on this, Heidegger. I'm not familiar with the name. Auguste Comte is still a highly revered name here in America within certain circles. Your mention of Plato's "Republic" made Comte and Positivism come to mind. I notice the names that you mention when speaking of socialism and communism. It is my opinion that Woodrow Wilson used Europe as a laboratory for his socialism experiments. I believe Germany won WWI and was willing to call and end to it. Everything simply returning to the way it was before the war started. We had no necessity at all for entering into it.

In regard to Tolkien, I'm going to suggest that he was simply providing a beautiful portrait of how agrarian life can manifest itself. In these venues, certain things like homosexuality were simply not spoken about. One simply did not speak of certain things. When society wants to exalt certain things, to make them seem proper, I don't feel the need to rise up against it, but I also don't have to make it a part of my karma by claiming it is normal and proper behavior. I get the feeling that people trying to manufacture a utopian society are kind of hive minded. Then I begin to think on the word Elemental for some odd reason. Compulsion and coercion also pop up. Immaturity is another.

09-12-2008, 08:22 PM	#3
wispeight Pile O'Bones Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: In the caboose pulled by the unseen. Posts: 23	I think that was a great writing. I need to find out more on this, Heidegger. I'm not familiar with the name. Auguste Comte is still a highly revered name here in America within certain circles. Your mention of Plato's "Republic" made Comte and Positivism come to mind. I notice the names that you mention when speaking of socialism and communism. It is my opinion that Woodrow Wilson used Europe as a laboratory for his socialism experiments. I believe Germany won WWI and was willing to call and end to it. Everything simply returning to the way it was before the war started. We had no necessity at all for entering into it. In regard to Tolkien, I'm going to suggest that he was simply providing a beautiful portrait of how agrarian life can manifest itself. In these venues, certain things like homosexuality were simply not spoken about. One simply did not speak of certain things. When society wants to exalt certain things, to make them seem proper, I don't feel the need to rise up against it, but I also don't have to make it a part of my karma by claiming it is normal and proper behavior. I get the feeling that people trying to manufacture a utopian society are kind of hive minded. Then I begin to think on the word Elemental for some odd reason. Compulsion and coercion also pop up. Immaturity is another.