The All American Jedi

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Yeah, so between two final papers and senior honors project proposal, I haven't been able to write as much as I would like to. I feel a bit of sadness coming on, but it's just probably the knowledge that I just turned down an offer to return to my student senate. There's too much other stuff that I need to take care of first.

Oh, I did stumble across an interesting quote from Niall Ferguson's Colossus: The Price of America's Empire:

The imperialism of anti-imperialism had come fatally unstuck if it was the United States that was cast in the role of the evil empire. Small wonder the most successful post-Vietnam movie of them all was in fact a science-fiction fable in which the audience was invited to identify with a ragtag collection of freedom fighters battling for an underdog Rebel Alliance against a sinister Galactic Empire. In Star Wars George Lucas perfectly expressed the American yearning not to be on the dark side of imperialism. It was not without significance that as his cinematic epic unfolded backward a generation later, the archvillain Darth Vader was revealed to have been an all-American Jedi Knight in his youth.

Comments

[paranoidgrl.livejournal.com]

I think there's an scene in one of Kevin Smith's films where they talk about the Rebels being terrorists. It's one of those fun geek conversations.

Take a break now and then when you can. It's energizing.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Taking a break is definitely nice.

[fub.livejournal.com]

This column might be of interest in that regard.

[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Hehehe, that was good.