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Oscar Wilde and J.R.R. Tolkien with Paul Fortunato

Other Life

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Is It a Cheat Code?

The way that he leaned on these mechanisms to great effect, it seems to me to suggest a hidden source code of how culture actually operates. The hierarchical structure of society is not an evil in and of itself. It's just neither good nor bad. And these ISAs that Al-Tusaire identified as oppressive are the tools of his trade. I mean, that's good stuff for him.

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