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Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can’t see where it keeps its brain
by alserio 2mo ago
Never trust anything that can think for itself, if you can’t see where it keeps its brain
- frollogaston 2mo agoBut if anything that's truer to how Tom Riddle's diary works
- soraminazuki 2mo agoFYI that's a direct quote from the book. I regrettably spent too much time of my childhood reading a series that ends with the protagonist thinking about ordering his unpaid servant make him a sandwich after a bloody battle.
- rootsudo 2mo agoDon’t worry you can’t spend your adulthood the same way.
- stavros 2mo agoWait, who was the unpaid servant? I don't remember the sandwich bit.
- echoangle 2mo agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/TwoBestFriendsPlay/s/W88nHchQti https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoBestFriendsPlay/s/W88nHchQti Seems to be this one. The unpaid servant is Kreacher.
- stavros 2mo agoOh I forgot about Kreacher, I thought they meant Dobby. The whole thing is bizarre, Harry is so intent on freeing Dobby but then he's fine with every other house elf being a slave. They didn't even care about Hermione's initiative.
- inigyou 2mo agoJK Rowling was trying to make the point that slaves should be slaves and enjoy being slaves, and the ones who want to be free are a rare exception, and anyone who wants to free all slaves is silly and cringe.
- stavros 2mo agoSeriously? That's such a weird point to make!
- soraminazuki 2mo agoThe parent's take is a bit too literal, but at least it's her view on human rights activism. That view has demonstrably gotten more extreme post-pandemic. But even if you don't take JKR's views as pro-slavery, it's still pretty ironic that the rhetoric of happy slaves is taken from literal slavers from history.
- inigyou 2mo agoThe Harry Potter series tried and mostly failed to push a bunch of weird political stuff. Slavery is the most noticeable but there was also racism mixed in. The black token character is called Kingsley Shacklebolt. The Chinese token character is called Cho Chang. The war is overtly world war 2, and Voldemort is Hitler - he wants to kill everyone who has impure blood. The Minister for Magic mirrors the British and American leaders who stuck their head in the sand about the war. The banks are run by goblins with big noses. You might also be interested to know that The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was made as a Christian propaganda story. Aslan is Jesus.
- ChadNauseam 2mo ago> The banks are run by goblins with big noses. I can believe that the origins of this trope are antisemetic, but I don't see very much reason to think that any antisemitic mindset was in JK Rowling's head when she wrote it.
- raverbashing 2mo agoWhich makes me think this would be more impressive with a self-contained local model, not something that talks to the cloud
- antondd 2mo ago“But how do you know you can see where you keep your brain?!” /s