McMiddle Earth (MorgCast#22 clip) 

Well, crime against Europeans, I don't all of humanity care. That universalism is part of the problem. What does the African care if whitey's culture gets destroyed, so long as his own survives? I get your point, but it's really just on us.

@@MALICEM12 I wouldn't expect my messaging to reach non-Europeans on a channel like this.

@Makin Shooties My channel has been purposefully stymied for years now. I'm almost thinking of rebranding and starting a new channel with a slightly different format.

@@SonoftheAllfather Odysee is OK for a while

@@wyrdways I haven't dabbled in Odysee. But I want to branch out.

My family on both sides has been living in the American South since 1700 at the latest. You can imagine how I feel, lol

Only one. And they do not share *power*

The realization of who's responsible is growing again, it's just keeps repeating over and over throughout history

@@brianbadonde8700 This round will be the last time.

@@windhammer1237 I don't know about that, maybe.......

@@brianbadonde8700 Respectfully, I think the Anglos are *more* responsible for this mess that modernity is. A question for you - how many Anglos can you openly share your beliefs with in real life ?

I think they were mainly left alone in New Zealand because Hollywood execs didn't fancy the trip.

They've fancied the bloody trip since then, we're tainted as F now.

Absolutely! It's a miracle that LOTR could be made the way it was made and I really appreciate the original trilogy even more with every passing year.

@@nikkili8944 I was born in 1970 and read the Hobbit as a child then saw the animated 1970s version. This totally informed my vision of Middle Earth. It felt kind of ethereal and otherworldly. I really didn't like the look of Jackson's trilogy, it didn't feel authentic. All the costumes and the general feel didn't seem like the gritty dark ages of a mythological northern Europe. The casting for Aragorn was appalling, the dwarfs looked ridiculous and so did the hobbits and the orcs. There was something a bit Hollywood medieval about it. They didn't quite get Tolkien's vision. But looking at what Amazon's doing, it could have been a whole lot worse!

@@nodarkthings Fair enough Matt, I respect your opinion. I have to watch the animated 1970's version in order to compare it to Jackson's trilogy of the early 2000's. I really love the soundtrack of The Fellowship Of The Ring, The Two Towers and The Return Of The King, ngl.

One day people will realise there won't be any successor or such. This is the fallacy of post-enlightenment thought. This is ultimate progressivism. Everyone thinks that justice lies at some point in the future. Everyone is wrong.

As long as they have the drive and motivation to dig that will at least be something.

I think the problem is what the country is now is not captaliaistic at all its Oligarchical but people keep saying it is. It's not. The right needs to stop calling it that and say we need to get back to that snd the entrepreneurial spirit. We really need Teddy Roosevelt to clean house but no one is on the horizon to do it snd certainly not Trump

"Capitalism" is a left wing bogie-man. Free market economics, limited government and personal freedoms are the real values of the political right. There are more than a hundred million victims of collectivism (in all its evil forms) that would slap you down for the idiot that you clearly are if they hadn't been murdered by the likes of Stalin, Mao, Pot, Chavez, Mugabe, Hitler and Castro.

@@niciassmith1204 oligarchy is a form of governance, "capitalism" is an economic model. You can have both. That being said free trade has shown to lead to treasonous pursuits of profits. We quite simply, sold our countries out, because we were "free" to do so. If there is anything to learn it's that the nations of tomorrow must not allow the freedom of treason.

I would say there is more of a problem with global free market it's internationalist since it's inception, but there is no denaying that capitalist economic model is used to great effect agnaist any right leaning forces

Generraly speaking American lolbertarians are bane of right wing thought...

lol

I had no idea. I watched a couple of those and immediately lost interest as it seemed pretty vacuous. I figured it was based on a series of novels, but I knew nothing about it being bastardized. I read a series of novels as a teen called the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. I've been waiting for the inevitable appropriation and subversion of this series as well by some chameleonic merchant.

Eh, the Wheel of Time series always had the stench of "Progress" wafting about. Namely the female characters getting free reign to do whatever they pleased - usually denigrating the male characters and reminding them that they're all useless idiots who couldn't do anything if it weren't for the women folk... who usually end up needing to be saved after they do something incredibly stupid. Hell, not one good-aligned protagonist in older fantasy books would laugh at a female rape victim or say they deserve it while spreading lies about them and constantly planning how to undermine them both before and after. None of them would be thankless twats after being saved from being sold into magic slavery. None of them would berate a female who is cursed and trying her level best to stay sane and not bring about the end of the world. None of them would try and claw down the female's self esteem constantly when they're actively trying to prevent the end of the world because they end up having a few vices that don't impact said war effort and, in fact, help hold it all together. But the women in Wheel of Time? The princess was able to rip someone out of the cycle of reincarnation, no one knowing the consequences, and yet she got the same heroine to end up being her body guard after that. No big deal. Then there was the farm girl, she literally never had to face any consequences at all and, even after her death, was still the deciding factor before she literally ascended to a higher plane of existence in a death scene that got more detail and effects than anyone else ever got. And let's not forget that it's a plot point that Rand damn near loses his mind because he has to kill a single female, who is one of the most vile beings that has plagued the world for a long time. He nearly decides that, because he had to kill an evil woman, that he might as well destroy the whole world and be done with it. It literally takes his past life's insane self who already ruined the world once through sheer magical might going "Whoa man, that's a step too far" to stop him.

Are the WoT books any good, and would you recommend?

@@fablelover121 I think you're stretching it. You said yourself that the woman berate the male characters and then get themselves in situations where they need said males to save them. I didn't see the bickering between the sexes as the author's opinion, but his way of working one of the themes of the story: man and woman need to sort out their differences and work together as a whole, not against each other. The magic system hammer this idea the whole time. The whole Yin and Yang thing. The two halves of the power pushing against each other and moving each other. Personally I don't agree with his views (at least not completely) but I can see what he was going for and I respect that. He may be a bit parcial to the girl's side but I didn't sensed any "toxic masculinity is bad mmmkay" in the writing. Maybe you did see it and I'm interested if you have an example. Another thing, their world have been under the control of women for the last 3.000,00 years. It's been off balance to their side. The dragon's arrival triggers the beginning of power shifting towards men. This is my interpretation and I also think it's explicit in the books. Sure, Jordan wasn't exactly a traditionalist or reactionary by any means. You can see the liberalism in him. But I think you're exaggerating by tying it together with progressivism. There are absolutely no gay or sexually deviant characters whatsoever. Women and men are shown throughout to be different biologically, mentally and even spiritually. The magic system leaves no other interpretation here. Saidin and saidar are different and no gender identity BS can change this fact. If you're a man you're gonna use the male half of the power, no arguing that. Woman in power don't get rid of their femininity, in fact most of them revel in it. Every nation have it's ethnicity with clear physical characteristics, culture and traditions and their differences are shown positively, with the problem arriving when they can't work together against the greater evil (mind you, not "mixing" into a multicultural blob, just work together like the elves, men and dwarves did in Tolkien's books) It's all so different from today's progressive view of the world that I'm pretty sure some of the "fans" call it "problematic" and that's why they praise the television adaptation. These books are not perfect. Any politics or social commentary you can get from them (it really is very little, almost none) is your typical boomer liberalism, but it doesn't excuse what Amazon did. They are extremely enjoyable and have fantastic character development and worldbuilding.

@@fablelover121 another thing: I agree with most of your specific criticism. I also got annoyed by some of these stuff. I just don't think it's representative of any message the author was trying to say, as I explained above.

I would go further than that and say this ideology is anti-human and anti-life. It is a death cult.

Even the term "intellectual property" is repulsive.

They want everyone to be grey boring consumers that are easy to manipulate and change at a snap of a finger.

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Normies will watch just about anything. Furthermore you have "fans" who just like the aesthetics or brand of a franchise. Like how halve of Starwars fans will keep watching the shit Disney has pumped out over the years since they've bought the rights. The Star wars fandom is split between those who miss the good ol days and those who will eat anything with a grin on their face. Same will become true with LotR. And that's on top of bored normies that aren't even fans that will just watch it because they've run out of other things to watch. Also ironically even people who hate it will hate watch it to see how bad it is. Reviewers will have to watch it or they can't comment about it with any authority. Controversy sells, remember Black Panther? Controversy got alot of asses in seats for that one.

@@MALICEM12 True, the "I am watching this ironically" people are just as bad. I've hated Marvel for a long time now. Watching star wars die was a little sad at first, but it's honestly a relief now.

Cancelled my Prime sub for this reason. Disregard the shit shows they produce consider how much frivolous spending goes on when you have Prime. It's just too easy to open the app and buy something you don't really need and probably don't actually want all that much either

No serious Tolkien fan would use the word "Treant"

@@jackvancekirkland What's your point? So, because I made a slight mistake by misremembering the exact name of the sentient tree species my concerns are unfounded?

@@jackvancekirkland Does the use of the word "Treant" invalidate the wider point he's making though? Or are you just being an elitist snob?

@@HovisSteve He definitely is. I even wrote down the correct language they use, so of course I know they're Ents. It was just a simple mistake.

Nah, she has a tomahawk on a piece of string. Luckily the Comanche, who were feared raiders known for their cruelty, never developed this dreadful weapon, or the US cavalry would have stood no chance. And who can say how this movie will end and who the cream enemy will turn out to be.

@fu cukoff I was on twitter and I took some scalps but it’s such a cesspool I feel dirty even thinking of going back on. I’ve come to the realization that we never got our independence, we got the illusion of it. The treaty cemented Anglo power, the west Brits took over management. Look at our language, it can’t be a coincidence that it’s in a worst state than 100 years ago. Sinn Fein were so utterly subverted by the intelligence services that two fat women are in charge north and south. Look at our flag- the green, representing the Gael was only one third of it. It was in our face from the get go. Our current crop of politicians are traitors with one eye on a UN/EU job .

@fu cukoff I’m not involved with any party. The EU is so embedded in the Irish psyche now that you may as well ask the Irish to cut off their arms.

It will be tomorrow. The link to Substack is just above and open to everyone.

@@MorgothsReview1 thanks 👍

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@@MorgothsReview1 Thanks Morgoth. Love your channel mate.

Thats precisely it, we in the west dont live in the real world. Our world is a fantasy, to the extent that everything the system proports to be, it isnt. As the collective sludge continues to bubble up for more and more to see, eventually things will become actionable. The problem is, even at this juncture its not yet obvious to enough people that a bait and switch has been played. Too many still believe in the falsehoods put forward. Thats not the answer i want to give, nor what you want to hear, but consider the last two decades: in 1999, for all practical purposes no one knew any of this stuff. Sure, exceptions existed, but generally speaking no one knew about any of this criticisms this sector makes on a daily basis now. The west was so successfully conquered by finance that its taken the better part of a century for us to get to this point. For us to begin to reorient ourselves and rediscover a path forward. To return to something like this clip, pop culture is a very fruitful avenue because it amounts to the secular mythos. As nice as it is to recite historical realities, names and dates, to deconstruct metapolitics and try to build something more concrete and grounded in 'reality' very few people have any grasp on the past because weve been turned into a people without identity and without history. Pop culture critiques are the way we build bridges. And this is to say nothing of how powerful story is to human beings. Hell, half the systems power comes from its ability to tell stories. If we can deconstruct them in real time, that does influence the real world people in south america you mentioned live in. Tl;dr - fed posting and historical revision is not a way to introduce people to the problem. People depend on story to understand real life. The west is full of the last men. Telling them their cape shit is shit and explaining why is the first step needed to move people this direction.

Pointing out the specific elements that are going wrong with corporate cultural output gives people hints for where else to look and what elements are worthwhile to pursue when making something yourself. Corporate culture may be captured by the left and has become a zombified hollow husk, but culture proper needn't be, and I think talking about what goes wrong now, paves the road for genuine cultural expression both now and in the future. And if you're questioning what the point of culture all together is, still, after seeing how absolutely subversive it becomes to everything else that you're calling real once it got captured by leftists, then I don't think you're going to make it. Culture animates, gives people a reason to strive. Lack thereof makes people idle sacks, degrades their standards because ideals are no longer remembered, etc. This is a step on the way from a demoralized people to a remoralized people, a reversal of what leftists have managed to do with the capture of corporate cultural output.

@@nzxtMonster A good point, I do agree that our sorry state of affairs regarding popular cultural-historical knowledge forces engagement with all this cape shit and so on to force people to think about the wider context we are aware of here. But I suppose my issue is that we're still stuck in this constant pop culture clash with the same points and arguments and debates again and again - people have been talking about this stuff since at least 2016. how do we proceed to the next step of serious engagement with social and economic matters that aren't merely diagnosis of the rot and decay, but a positive vision forward? There's only so much one can talk of spenglerian themes in star wars or whatever until one has to ask whats the point? It all comes across as ridiculous internet nerd nonsense. I still think that real-world socio-economic conditions - set to get worse this year - will be far more important as a catalyst for change than this online Kulturkampf. And it seems the online LARPy radical right (cf. Apostolic Majesty et al) will be left in the dustbin of history.

@@fransvandenheuvel7161 I'm not questioning the importance of culture, far from it. My point is that movies and pop culture rubbish is not the real culture of day-to-day life of real people which motivates their action and can cause socio-economic change. The old working class cultures within historical communities gave birth to socialism and the identity of being working class etc in turn replicated socialist ideals and coherent political goals. Having whites instead of black actors in some stupid fantasy series is not going to 'revive the west' or whatever fetishistic rubbish online nerds think of. I don't see how not having black elves in a LotR production will translate into real political change other than to seduce people (in the English context) back into the impotent Conservative fold - the 'bulldog patriotism' pseudo-politics Morgoth rails at.

@@paralleloctagon7062 Tbh the diverse casting is just the most obvious victory parading, and once mentioned there's not much more to say about that aspect, which they don't here either. Instead much of the talk in this podcast episode is devoted to substantial story or character elements being subverted to twist the morality of the original upside down, much like they're doing everywhere else in the world. Specifically in this clip video, they're also talking about the process corporate capture of cultural IP (in this case Tolkien's work, and McDonalds is discussed as well), and subsequent hollowing out of said IP. It's laying bare what drives such a process (main points here being: competitive expansionist greed going to the point of callously disregarding any moral considerations, and finding loopholes in legalese to make bad, cheap copies of something genuine). This is still useful chatter, because pointing at it allows one to see it (better), and once one can see it (better), one can avoid it (better). As for the idea that day-to-day working class people's culture is all that separate from pop-culture bullshit, I'd remind you that the market is thoroughly saturated with this shite. Most still have a TV, people still watch netflix or disney crap; I think it's included in real people's day-to-day lives. So we disagree on estimates for how far the tendrils of pop-culture reaches. Taking a look at how the needle gets moved whenever an outlier production comes out (like say with the Joker), and the subsequent panic of the usual suspects whenever this happens, it seems rather clear that genuine cultural expression with the right ideals, messages, and symbolism, is a very important win. So, you're right in saying that leaving everything the same in this new stupid series, except for making the diverse casting white, would not do much of any good. But that's also not what is being discussed or suggested, or at least it's not what I'm getting out of this clip or other chatter about this.

Good luck

@@mjx2191 thanks

I agree 👍

Spoken like a true leftist.

@@MorgothsReview1 My point was the conversation I was listening to seemed extremely sentimental and anti-capitalist, bemoaning lost cosy businesses and complaining about cultural 'rights' being swallowed by big business. I am completely against the 'cancel culture narrative of the left wing. Thank you for the prompt reply, though!

@@derekwholden Our problems are far greater than "cancel culture". You have stumbled onto a part of right-wing YT with a prevailing belief that a society is more than a collection of atomised consumers. Humans need to feel they are part of something, a nation, a people, a tradition, and free market capitalism has done more to erode this than communists could dream of. The economy should not be worshipped like a deity, it needs to serve the people, not vice versa.

​@@derekwholden If the culture is inferior it deserves to be conquered. The market already punishes left wing entertainment but the government powers will still prop them up and pay them. The ultimate problem will always be the existence of democracy

You're not on the GB News channel now, Derek.

What is it I got wrong?