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1. LS (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 20:02:50 JST LS

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   • grillchen
   • kaia
   @kaia @grillchen voting is for chumps anyway.
   
   “My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning the abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs) — or to ‘unconstitutional’ Monarchy. I would arrest anybody who uses the word State (in any sense other than the inaminate real of England and its inhabitants, a thing that has neither power, rights nor mind); and after a chance of recantation, execute them if they remained obstinate! If we could go back to personal names, it would do a lot of good.
   
   Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so to refer to people … The most improper job of any many, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.”
   
   – J.R.R. Tolkien, letter to his son, 1943 (from The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien)
   • kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 20:02:51 JST kaia

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     • grillchen
     @grillchen I don't think professor meant the German greens.
     
     but claiming a pre-Vatican-2 Catholic would vote Green in any country is quite the stretch.
   • grillchen (grillchen@brotka.st)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 20:02:52 JST grillchen

     in reply to

     • kaia
     @kaia why would he be a member of a german party?
     
     tbf afaik he was a plant nerd, but tbh i stopped associating greens with ecological foo....
   • kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2023 20:02:53 JST kaia
     professor just explained if Tolkien was alive today, he'd be member of the Green party.
     
     :blobcatgooglytrash: