71. The Fellowship of the Ring (w/ Bennett Eckert and Rebecca Kuang)
Cows in the field
00:00
The Rise of the Industrial Revolution
I think there is this kind of a roseness about where society was headed and I think we feel that even more acutely now watching letter the rings as the generation that will face apocalyptic climate change. Perhaps Tolkien even foresaw when he wrote it. For him technology is basically all bad. It's just ways of killing people more efficiently. He didn't get unfortunately to experience the iPhone and Twitter and podcasts so maybe they're pros and cons. They have air conditioning back then, you wouldn't have made it in those days. You should cut like you like that to Rebecca. She had a blanket on before we started being as it was too. Put it on the bed because it looked ridiculous
Play episode from 17:54
Transcript
