TolkienIncoming LinksFebruary 25th, 2021David Graeber's book 📙 The Utopia of Rules talks about the antibureaucratic appeal of play and fantasy. He writes about the literature of authors like Tolkien:📙 The Utopia of RulesJ.R.R. Tolkien for example once remarked that politically, he was either an anarchist, or an “unconstitutional” monarchist—it seems he could never make up his mind quite which. The one thing both positions have in common of course is that they are both profoundly antibureaucratic.