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A comment on W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring. Parent comment

Re:W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring by sBqQu3U0wH on Sunday August 20, 2023 @07:54AM (#37198264)
>An evil force that heavily used propaganda to spread their horrible ideas, and masses of people not only in Germany or Italy, but the rest of Europe and the US, refusing to acknowledge or oppose the reality of the evil, the grim future; and many even supporting it.

Yeah, not much has changed in that regard. Though we likely have very different ideas of what that evil is nowadays.

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Re:W. H. Auden’s 1954 review of The Fellowship of the Ring by wolverine876 on Monday August 21, 2023 @01:56AM (#37205891)
> we likely have very different ideas of what that evil is nowadays

Because you don't know that, I see a comment that attempts to disrupt good people from doing anything, promoting despair. Quoting my GP comment:

>> An evil force works not by open destruction, but through lies to cause despair and corruption. The good people of the world allow themselves to be influenced by it; they embrace despair and abandon goodness and all resistance; or they are corrupted and even help the enemy.

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