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Ep 187 - Tolkien Was Warning Us: AI, Vice, and the War for Men’s Souls
What if The Lord of the Rings was never just a story?
What if Tolkien was encoding a spiritual map for men living in the modern war for the soul?
In this episode of The Manly Catholic, James Caldwell speaks with author and philosopher Paul List, co-author of Mount Doom: The Prophecy of Tolkien Revealed, to expose what Tolkien was really writing about: original sin, virtue and vice, artificial intelligence, and so much more.
Paul reveals how Tolkien’s mythology is a Catholic psychological map of the human soul. Hobbits as habits. The Ring as addiction. Sauron as AI. Middle-earth as the mind…
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