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comment by iammyownrushmore
iammyownrushmore  ·  3089 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Book Thread Inside

I've been down this rabbit hole, but never really reached a conclusion about Land. You're pretty much where i was at when I gave up and just called a duck a duck for as much as it was worth.

I think he liked the joke too much to let it go and it just became his life.





user-inactivated  ·  3089 days ago  ·  link  ·  

In defense of the Land is playing a different game than the rest theory, I don't think he joins in the hopeful, neofeudalism as utopia stuff. I don't think he ever contradicts it, but he backs the diagnosis, not the cures. If he's playing it straight, he seems fatalistic, like he thinks they're going to get what they want but he's not happy about it.