[lbo-talk] Fw: Greg Palast: Bye-Bye Ronnie Reagan and Hobbit references

[snit snat]

doesn't matter. DRR just likes to use references to things that are part of 
a particular sub-culture, like gaming, that 90% of the people on the list 
aren't part of, which is what the metaphors were before. Even if you read 
LotR, next year it'll be metaphors about something else you're not part of 
or, if you are, then 95% of the list isn't. :)

kelley

At 12:35 PM 6/9/2004, Miles Jackson wrote:


>On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, John Thornton wrote:
>
> >
> > >Capitalists can be bargained with. Ringwraiths cannot. The Kerry campaign
> > >is the feint drawing out the oil-orcs from their fastness in Barad-dur.
> > >Anything to keep $auron's eye from a tiny pair of Eurohobbits...
> > >
> > >-- DRR
> >
> > Are these elf related analogies really understood by the majority of people
> > on this list?. I haven't really read Tolkien and doubt I will take the time
> > to do so
>
>Reading Lord of the Rings is kinda like reading the Bible (I'm serious!).
>Even if you're not into it, you need to read it to understand the culture
>of our society.
>
>Miles
>
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