Moorcock blasts Tolkien

[Umbran]

You would be a fool to allow a work of fiction to influence your politics. The entire idea is obnoxious and presupposes that human beings are that foolish. If works of fiction influenced politics, we wouldn't have the systems we have today.

What your idea presupposes is that a person can't imagine a different world, a fantastic world, with certain romantic ideas without himself believing in the politics of the world. That is a very ignorant idea to put forth that is easily proven wrong.

After what has gone on in this thread, I would expect better than this. Politics, and sidelong attempts to call another person foolish and ignorant for having ideas other than your own.

While there is still other good discussion going on here, it has been sufficiently shown that the people in it cannot avoid this creep. I'm sorry, but it is time this thread closed.

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