The core issues with Numenor are their disagreement with the reality that men die, confusion that this is something taken away from them, which leads them to the unsustainable and insane ploy of attacking the gods.
The other problem is the way they start seeing Sauron as competition and rather than aiding in efforts to end his reign, they become more focused on amassing power and control in Middle Earth, and this whole saga ends with the hubris of taking Sauron back to Numenor as a "prisoner".
These actions are as far from woke as I can possibly imagine.
How would drives and society change when one is immortal though war and disease can still kill you, yet simultaneously there is a reincarnation cycle so the loss you have is time and material things, only?
If one thinks and feels about it, it would be so much different. Would the Elves engage in more destructive Jouissance since reincarnation is assured?
If instincts are naturally self-correcting and limiting (we know naturally how to breathe and to switch from breathing in and out / back and forth),
but drives are not naturally self correcting in regards to excellence…
would we engage drives more or less that bring a higher level of joy than mere pleasure, a level of joy that also has its own pain and contradiction built inside of it?
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After all both man and elves disobeyed the gods for completely different reasons, likewise Melkor rejected his own god like moral obligations and duty. What is our obligation to others, if our nature were to change?
- 20/01/2022 05:26:07 PM
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I edited the subject line. 
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