The Rings of Power Season 2 dropped on Prime last night. I’m two episodes in a loving it!
The PJ LORT trilogy was my initial internet culture. Sharing nerd-lore, using elven & hobbit names, fan fiction… It was fun, weird, and reminds me a bit of what Nostr culture is like right now.
The beauty of reading fiction is you get to imagine much of the faerie-world (Tolkien’s lecture - On Fairy Stories - being perhaps the greatest exposition on this) with it becoming an experience of your own. Adaptation, on the other hand, is more editorialized, communalized synthesis of a shared understanding of people's engagements with the story. The former is a fully sovereign experience, the latter a centralized undertaking - very much like the difference between a decentralize protocol and an algorithmic platform or custom AI. Depending on one’s disposition, favorability will incline in either direction and may even fluctuate from time to time. In fact, the ability to freely go back and forth is necessary for development and enhancement - this is how we analyze, test, and innovate.
This freedom of movement and flexibility is something I see attacked a lot lately - and I mean this in both the tech space and the mental arena. We see governments applying pressure on big tech orgs, tech platforms enforcing controls on customers, FUD everywhere so that indie-streamers are more trustworthy than degree-touting journalists. Polarized engagement-farming drives the machine so much that if the troll isn’t being fed, it comes down from the Northern mountains to feast on mutton, dwarves, and hobbits alike. We are much in need of a wizard to cast them all into stone and I’m glad that Nostr has been playing a part in such a spell for me.
Anyhow, this is why I love when a new Tolkien adaptation gets released - my mind gets to ping-pong between the real, dream-world and a new corporate fiction. I can float for a bit in the ether and analyze my fitra with the dream the world is trying to fashion and hopefully balance it with the vision I aim to build.
This is the magic of art and why I believe it will always triumph over science!
TimIsACoach / ابو مريم
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