Granted, it’s just incredible how someone can go through Aragorn’s story about a scion king using loyalty and honor to unite disperate peoples against the mindless hordes of a tyrannical warlord and missing the point so catastrophically that your only takeaway is “that’d make a cool name for my company making mindless hordes for a tyrannical warlord”.
Just anything evil-aligned would do to show that they at least understand that they’re on the wrong side of history.
You have to give it to Palantir (and nothing else), taking their name from a corrupted artifact that shows you whatever it needs to entice you but ultimately betrays everyone it touches displays an admirable sense of self-awareness.
Oh, thanks
Why DO so many dystopically inclined companies have names taken straight from Tolkien anyway?
Tolkien names are cool, and unfortunately people trying to bring about a dystopia understand that as well as anyone else :(
Granted, it’s just incredible how someone can go through Aragorn’s story about a scion king using loyalty and honor to unite disperate peoples against the mindless hordes of a tyrannical warlord and missing the point so catastrophically that your only takeaway is “that’d make a cool name for my company making mindless hordes for a tyrannical warlord”.
Maybe that’s the point.
I mean people put the ring inscription on shit they wear…
Exactly, Orthanc would’ve made much more sense.
Maybe it was taken?
Just anything evil-aligned would do to show that they at least understand that they’re on the wrong side of history.
You have to give it to Palantir (and nothing else), taking their name from a corrupted artifact that shows you whatever it needs to entice you but ultimately betrays everyone it touches displays an admirable sense of self-awareness.
Aren’t they propped up by Theil? Maybe only those get the funding.