Christmas 2025: Nudging and Advising
Gandalf must stay. He must continue working within the constraints of mortality, nudging and advising, forever denied the efficiency of simply imposing solutions. And this is the tragedy: the wise must always work slowly while the corrupt can move with terrible speed. (Genny Harrison)[1] A Christmas reflection on Tolkien probably dates me as much as…
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