Star Wars: The Revisiting of A Childhood Philosophy.
Reevaulating Star Wars
It's now 40 years this year since the release of the first Star Wars movie in 1977. As a child for me it was a completely immersive experience as my grandmother held my hand as evil Darth Vader built up his Death Star Empire. Hello to @lordvader if your reading this.
In the latest movie trailer for Episode 8 we now see Luke Skywalker discussing how the Jedi Order must end - old age has now made him gnarled and very wise.
But in the original 1977 original we could all sense the distinctive good and evil divides. I believe that this was an analogy of the Cold War: The US vs. The Soviets. Luke can be seen as the leader of the West taking on the evils of Communism behind the Iron Curtain. Luke believes the Jedi Order is the lighter side of life and that if he does his job, the system will look after him.
A different force
Fast forward to 2017, and America is a changed place. Globalisation has gutted the middle class of America, and there have been some questionable choices made by the America government (The Jedi Order). Luke now sees the system has failed him and the Jedi Order is out of control. There is no one to stop them. This is plainly an analogy to America's rapacious exercises in Iraq, Iran and Syria.
At the end of the day, Luke believes its best we have no heroes, rather than have heroes who create universal mayhem for others elsewhere in the universe. May the force be with you ... exclusions apply!
P.S. The trailer for the new Episode 8 can be seen below:
Yep, that is what the elite are selling.
Destroying our heroes.
Trying to say, there is no dark, there is no light.
There are no good guys, there are no bad guys.
However, their truly is evil on this world.
And they go around creating wars.
They fund both sides.
They create both sides.
They are both sides of the same coin indeed @builderofcastles! CRAZY!!
mindhunter is right about the gutting of the middle class, everyone I know that I actually like is struggling bigtime and it's taking people multiple jobs to pay the bills, food prices and everything is through the roof and the "jobs" created seem to be at least where I am....like heavy industry which as a 115 lb female isn't exactly helpful unless I suddenly become Wonder Woman, seems like choppy seas ahead unfortunately
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Light or dark?
Excellent post! Obviously just a guess but I think this will play out more the "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" type thing, probably both on the silver screen and the global stage. Never have I seen things neatly divided into "good guys" and "bad guys". There is definitely evil in the world as there is good and there are definitely people that intentionally do evil but the most evil is propagated by people who think they are the "good guys" doing it to the "bad guys".
Rapacious empire building is not good. It's not a good business to be in nowadays. It just seems so noughties now after the quagmires of Iraq, Afghanistan etc etc ....
Couldn't agree more... Empire building is all about centralized competitors while the future will be all about decentralized cooperation.
Regime change is so noughties now! Bring on the era of Steem!