Ep. 396 - The Far-Right's Obsession with Lord of the Rings

After discussing the unhealthy relationship both teens and their parents have with cellphones with Steve and Dag following today's The Morning After, I decided to read through this article that I had found a while back that suggests parents should consider underachieving.Opinion | Parents, Consider Underachieving - The New York Times

A Salon author reads his own progressive mindset into LotR and then doesn't understand why some popular right-wingers love the books so much. So, par for the course for Salon.Glance – inkl news

According to Esquire the negative backlash to the final season of The Boys, and to the finale in particular, is because the audience just missed the point. It's not because the writers and showrunners decided to go over the top with the heavy-handed politicizing and turned it into pure dog crap... The Boys Finale Backlash Shows Fans Missed Homelander’s Point

When it first came out, The Boys was a cultural phenomenon. So how, just a few years later, did it devolve into just a hollow sounding board for cultural platitudes?

The creator of the Invincible comics, and now animated series, explains why some characters go race and gender swapped from the comics to the tv show. I'd like to look at that reasoning in light of the current social moment we're living in.

Trey and I are going to look back at Gamergate and the consequences it had on gaming in the United States, and also at the aftermath and pushback that has come from those consequences.

Who would have thought a video game where you're tasked with protecting a little girl would become something so controversial. Of course, the controversy only exists in the minds of the most depraved nutjobs of society.The Way Some Gamers Talk About Pragmata's Diana Is Disgusting, And Must Be Stoppedmary morgan on X: "lots of strange reactions to this game. let’s clear some things up: childless men do not have paternal instincts the way that childless women have maternal instincts (we observe this even in the way little girls play vs. little boys). men first experience paternal instincts" / X

I'm not quite ready to do this again, but I did want to share some stuff from Sean's Celebration of Life and Funeral with everyone.Also, if you want to follow along with the writing that's helped me work my way through everything, you can find that on my SubstackFact Check This Substack | Justin Campbell | Substack

Leftists all across the internet screw up what The Lord of the Rings is actually about. They believe it's about power, when it's actually about good and evil. And their own failure to identify evil is why they get the Right's (and the right) interpretation of the story so very wrong.The right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings. But they don’t understand it. | 67njHumble Flow on X: "At the heart of The Lord of the Rings is a very simple idea: Power corrupts. Always. Not sometimes, not just for the weak, not just for the selfish. Everyone who touches the Ring is changed by it. Even the good. Especially the good. https://t.co/R7Hr6uUqCi" / X

The art of making you feel bad to push an objective; broken down and explained so you can be as unmoved by bullshit as I am.Quickie Post — Weaponized Empathy | It's About Empathy – Connection Ties Us Together