Originally Posted by elphenor

can be hard to say how much art/media in general influences/challenges us and how much it reaffirms us

but, for example, my politics I was a lefty well before I was lacing up theoretical combat boots

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting 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.