About me—
I work in innovation strategy for a global construction company.
My days are full of data, AI, and practical decisions.
But threads like this help me stay human in the middle of it all.
Thanks for reaching to this point 🌬️

#politics #wisdominfiction #TolkienVsHerbert #SystemsThinking

Which world are you seeing more of right now? - Share your lens.
🌍🌀

I’m not here with answers.
Just a thread from a moment of reflection that won’t leave me alone.
And a question I’m carrying:

What kind of world are we building—and who are we becoming to build it?

That breath…
might be the one that gets us through the storm and back to the Shire.

So maybe it’s not about choosing one over the other.
Not Tolkien or Herbert.

Maybe it’s a breath between them.

🌬️ Inhale Tolkien: humility, care, preservation.
🌬️ Exhale Herbert: clarity, strategy, adaptation.

So maybe it’s not about choosing one over the other.
Not Tolkien or Herbert.

Maybe it’s a breath between them.

Here’s the scary part.
We’ve gotten very good at winning.
But somewhere along the line, we stopped asking:
What are we winning for?

🌍 The Global South:
New myths rising. New voices.
But without grounded ethics, the stories could turn into shadows.

🌡️ Climate:
It’s no longer a question of should we protect it?
It’s: How can we profit from fixing it?

Let’s look closer 👇

🇺🇸 US: Strong Yang energy. Myth wars. Tech acceleration. But its moral compass flickers.

🇨🇳 China: Strategic mastery. Planet-level planning. But where’s the soul?

🇪🇺 EU: Holds Tolkien’s values. Consensus, care. But can it still act before the storm hits?

We live in a Herbertian world, but Tolkien’s ethics — his breath of stillness, care, restraint— they’re fading out.
And we feel it.
In how fast we move. In how little we pause.

In how rarely we ask: Should we?

Today’s politics feels like a Dune sequel written without Paul’s regret.

Narratives are weaponized.
AI is prophecy.
Climate is a resource.
Everyone is strategizing. Few are listening.

So what happens when you start to see the modern world through these two lenses?

That’s what I’ve been sitting with.
And honestly… the reflection is wild.

Herbert, on the other hand, gives us a strategic realism—

A world where myth is a tool, power is inevitable, and survival demands adaptation.

You can’t ignore the game. You must learn to play it. Even if it breaks you. 🏜️

Tolkien believed in moral clarity, the quiet strength of humility, and a deep connection to nature.

Power, to him, was dangerous—even when used with good intentions.

The Ring is not to be wielded. It must be let go. 🍃

I came across a post the other day comparing the ethics of Tolkien and Dune.

At first it felt like fan territory.

Then it hit me:

This isn’t just fiction.
It’s a reflection of the world we’re living in right now.