Author: Crowhill Report

We are surrounded by enormous wealth, which is a great blessing. We can get amazing stuff for almost nothing, delivered to our house quickly.

But this blessing comes with its own challenges. For me, one of the challenges is buyer’s remorse. E.g., I get a new pair of water shoes (for kayaking and such), and then over the next 12 months I see 25 different brands that I might like better.

Someone might be tempted to think that if you do your research before you buy, this won’t be a problem. But that’s not true. First, you can’t possibly do enough research, and second, new products are coming on the market all the time.

The solution, I think, is contentment. We have to learn that good enough is good enough. Or, as the old guys in Second Hand Lions said, learn to do without.

Jeff Bergner does a fantastic job listing the ways experts misled people over the last few years. It’s quite a damning list.

That’s not the whole story, of course. Americans’ distrust of experts has a long and complicated history. But the fact that the experts have been doing such a terrible job recently certainly fuels the fire.

That’s why we still have this.

But I hear they may finally take it down this weekend.

Tucker Carlson has been pushing the idea of cameras in the public government schools.

That seems like a pretty obvious thing to do.

“Hey, parent, turn your child over to the government-approved minder for 7 hours a day, and no, you have no right to know what we’re doing to them.”

I don’t want government-run schools at all. I think the very idea is ludicrous. It sounds like something out of Mao’s little red book.

But if we’re going to have them, shouldn’t they be accountable to the public?

Of course they should.

I don’t want any more movie adaptations of The Lord of the Rings. While I’m sure some of the visual effects will be stunning, they’re just going to mess it up.

Some fans have signed a petition begging Amazon to keep nudity out of their upcoming Tolkien series.

I agree with that, but nudity is hardly the biggest threat. I already see articles about how Merry and Pippin or Frodo and Sam were a couple. The odds are good this new rendition will include some completely gratuitous wokeness. (Between the two, I’d prefer gratuitous nudity, but I’d rather have neither.)

This past weekend, the Tolkien Society, one of the oldest of the Tolkien fan groups, hosted its annual seminar in which members present papers on their research and analysis of the author’s body of work. This year, the theme was diversity. [Of course it was.]

“Spurred by recent interpretations of Tolkien’s creations and the cast list of the upcoming Amazon show The Lord of the Rings, it is crucial we discuss the theme of diversity in relation to Tolkien,” the seminar’s organizers wrote in a call for papers.

I am sick to death of this diversity BS, and I don’t want a bunch of movie makers stuffing their woke ideologies into Middle Earth.