The Fellowship of the Ring - 'Bend Not Break' Version | Frankly 58
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Nate Hagens
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🗓️ 29 March 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In this Frankly, Nate recasts his favorite book series, the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien, with some speculative "archetypes" of our human world grouped by various timelines. The eventual reduction in energy and material accessibility will likely alter the archetypes that we're familiar with today - perhaps to become something not helpful to larger society. What categories of human archetypes in the future will have the potential to best influence their communities and the Earth? What will the most powerful among us choose when it comes to protecting their (monetary, temporary) wealth vs using it towards prosocial collective responses? Finally, and most importantly what archetypes will form a new Fellowship of humans to 'bring the ring to Mordor' during humanity's 'Bend not Break' moment? Which archetype do you resonate with? Are there others?
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings. I'd first like to apologize for last weeks, frankly. Not really an apology, |
| 0:10.3 | but an explanation. Those beeps were a last minute addition to kind of call up a metacognition |
| 0:18.6 | from the viewers on what could I have said there that would have been |
| 0:22.3 | triggering. But I didn't think that many of you have listened to this on iTunes and Spotify |
| 0:26.7 | in different countries and might have wondered what the heck was going on. So not an apology, |
| 0:32.7 | but a promise that I won't do that again. But I'm going to try different creative things. |
| 0:39.8 | I'm trying to do one of these Franklys every week |
| 0:42.2 | and lots of other things to work on. |
| 0:46.2 | And they have to be playful and creative for me. |
| 0:49.4 | Otherwise, I won't do them. |
| 0:51.2 | So please stay tuned. |
| 0:53.1 | Today, I'm going in a totally different direction. |
| 0:56.2 | Like many of you in your 50s, well, or 40s or 60s, |
| 1:02.1 | J.R. Tolkien's books and subsequent movies based on the books had a big impact on your fantasy, |
| 1:13.6 | world view of how that book kind of was an analogy for our modern society. |
| 1:22.6 | I read those four books, The Hobbit and the Three Toms of the Fellowship of the Ring, |
| 1:28.5 | the Two Towers and the Return of the King when I was 13. |
| 1:32.0 | I read them again when I was 20, and I read them again in my 40s. |
| 1:39.8 | I think each of those nine characters in the fellowship represented a certain archetype. |
| 1:51.7 | Legolas was the warrior. |
| 1:55.5 | Gimli was represented the industry and Aragorn was the hero or Frodo. |
| 2:03.6 | And what I'd like to do today is talk about the archetypes in our modern society, |
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