"A Galaxy Far Far Away" My Ass!

[Joseph Tracy]

I liked  the entire Star Wars series for many reasons. Underlying my pleasure in the rush and thrills was the very thing that Sawyer doesn't see. For me the great struggle underlying Star Wars is the great struggle underlying America, Can we be both an empire and a republic. The Jedi's are the artists, the reformers, the truth tellers, the spirit :Frederic Douglas, Twain, Martin King,  Woodie Guthrie, Jane Adams.... The wars of empire to consolidate power continue to crush the  egalitarian spirit of the republic and it is a war against all that is celebrated and cherished, a civil war, an exaltation of death.  The truth of Star wars is not in the original stories which are a fantasy of the abolition of empire, but the murder of the Jedi's, the murder of a planet.  People turned away from Star Wars with mixed feelings  because it carried us  like a  space jet only to leave us  on the dark shores of  a land molten and  in flames. Anyway, for me, it has operatic and tragic grandeur along with those cute white stormtrooper outfits .

On Jan 3, 2012, at 10:10 PM, David Morris wrote:

> 1. Oedipus, meaning emerging sexuality
> 2. Technology Vs Spirit
> 3. Oppression Vs Freedom (like above)
> 4. Quest including but more than all above
> 5. History/Fate Vs Freedom
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> The list goes on and on...
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