• Leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    15 hours ago

    Dear Earth, apart from the many terrible things we have done historically, we, the British, are most recently sorry for David Icke, Andrew Wakefield and now Graham Hancock. We have tried to balance this out but one David Attenborough only goes so far.

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      7 hours ago

      Hey you did also have Tolkien. Not gonna say everything’s forgiven, but he pulls a lot of weight.

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        2 hours ago

        Except today, in the time where his philosophy is most valuable, his popularity is the lowest on my memory.

        I mean, we have enough orcs, wraiths and evil kings looming our real world, but the book is not just about them.