She makes a good point using the Silmarillion. The humanities and the arts are indeed the guardians of culture. When this breaks apart it is fertile ground for discord to spread its nasty influence, cause there’s no armor, no glue holding the culture together. Tolkien certainly knew this. He saw it firsthand in the Great War. And reflects this in the Sillmarillion and the Lord of the Rings.
Hmm. A lot of SF tech people seem to love Lewis and Tolkien. Does that add up to a humanities revival? Isn’t it more of a defeat for a century of literary modernism?
The disturbing aspects of human beings, and our societies, do seem to be woven into us, as the excerpt suggests. They may be minimized for a period of time but resurface. We must be vigilant.
She makes a good point using the Silmarillion. The humanities and the arts are indeed the guardians of culture. When this breaks apart it is fertile ground for discord to spread its nasty influence, cause there’s no armor, no glue holding the culture together. Tolkien certainly knew this. He saw it firsthand in the Great War. And reflects this in the Sillmarillion and the Lord of the Rings.
Hmm. A lot of SF tech people seem to love Lewis and Tolkien. Does that add up to a humanities revival? Isn’t it more of a defeat for a century of literary modernism?
The disturbing aspects of human beings, and our societies, do seem to be woven into us, as the excerpt suggests. They may be minimized for a period of time but resurface. We must be vigilant.