07 fevereiro 2013
Tolkien
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“My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning the abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs) — or to ‘unconstitutional’ Monarchy. I would arrest anybody who uses the word State (in any sense other than the inaminate real of England and its inhabitants, a thing that has neither power, rights nor mind); and after a chance of recantation, execute them if they remained obstinate! If we could go back to personal names, it would do a lot of good.
Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so to refer to people … The most improper job of any many, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity …
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamating factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.”
- J.R.R. Tolkien, letter to his son, 1943 (from The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien).
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2 comentários:
Curioso, que ele esteja a falar do estado inglês, particularmente na altura em que é...
Mas é evidente que isso é uma extravagância de pensamento.
Eu não compreendo uma coisa e já lhe perguntei: como concebe V. um país sem Estado e sem Governo que o dirija, de modo a que permaneça um país independente e soberano?
Sim, senhor, texto interessante. Leio o Tolkien desde os meus 16 anos e desconhecia isto, por inteiro. Há mais disto?
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