“The Silicon Valley right doesn’t just borrow from Tolkien; they reforge his moral vision into a weapon for a new age. They envision a new kind of privatized national-security state, merging the oligarchic power of Silicon Valley, the deep pockets of venture capital and private equity, and the lethal might of the U.S. military—a military-industrial complex with Tolkienesque characteristics.”
ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera · Mythic Capital | ARC: Religion, Politics, Et CeteraIn 1993, Giorgia Meloni—now Italy’s prime minister and leader of the far-right Brothers of Italy—attended a revival of Camp Hobbit. The original Camp Hobbit was staged in 1977 by the youth wing of the Italian neo-fascist party, the Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI). Dubbed the “Woodstock of Italy’s far right,” these outdoor festivals repurposed imagery from
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