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Discworld Rules
And LOTR is brain-rot for technologists
This post is an extended argument that as a lens for thinking about the world, TheLord of the Rings, is a work that you should “not set aside lightly, but throw across the room with great force,” and that in place of Middle Earth, you should install Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. If on the other hand, you’re really just a fantasist larping Chosen One stories bolstered by specious Straussian conceits, trying to meme your hyperstitional theory fictions into existence for a while, looting the commons with private-equity extraction engines until you get your Girardian comeuppance — by all means go for it. But as Discworld historigraphy correctly theorizes, the antidote to the dangers of Auditors of Reality is not individual Chosen Ones like sourcerers, over-ambitious witches, or kings claiming divine rights, but Death itself, understood as a personification of the process of renewal, regeneration, and stewardship of the organic messiness of life.
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