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Is The Myth of Star Wars Entering The Political Arena With a recent article in
the La Times, Star Wars has gone political. George Lucas has attended a Capital
Hill meeting for Democrats."Star Wars" filmmaker George Lucas joined House
Democratic leaders at a town hall meeting on Capitol Hill to roll out an
"innovation agenda" that aims to prepare the next generation of technological
entrepreneurs.Star wars has always been in our collective unconsciousness since
its inception after Lucas read Campbells Hero with a Thousand Faces
huanghaiyan121. But has this movie entered the political arena?Students asked
Lucas what he meant by the line from "Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the
Sith": "So this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause." Lucas answered
that when Rome, Nazi Germany, and after the French Revolution, "In all of those
countries, a democracy fell through nefarious manipulations behind the scenes,
and the people didn't seem to mind." Is he pointing the finger at us, the
american public with our crossed messages. Support the troops automatically
means you are for war, in this mixed up country it is not sure. Also strikes the
cord is Anakins line to Obi Won, :If you are not for the Empire, you are against
it!Further more Anakin is persuaded by the Emperor, vaguely disguised as a
rising Senator much like the younger Bush Senior, to bring in a reign of terror
and death to bring safety to the Republic. Another one nudge for the French
Revolution and our modern Freedom Fry eaters on Capital Hill. For true Patriots
like Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine, and Thomas jefferson; today would be called
terrorists Isabel Marant Shoes. For
indeed if they lost the war, history would of gone to the victors and they would
of been called so.In olden days we might walk away from a Myth like Star Wars or
the Matrix, and know that some how it pertained to our real lives. But for too
long now, media such as TV and the movies have been art for art sake. No longer
do we hear the words of Pinnochio or Platos Cave and find our lives informed on
a better way of life. Or do the papers offer a voice to the workers and the
people. This has been replaced by the tabloids on cable and the check out line.
Maybe we should go back to believing in our myths handed down for thousand of
years throughout the world, and give incredulous glances to the tv news and
newspapers. For Myths worked for us since we crawled out of the ocean, of our
minds!So what is this latest episode of the famous trilogy trying to tell us. Or
how does Lucas emphasize this by going to Capital Hill. Watch the movie again
and see what springs to mind!
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