The US Has Gone Over To The DARK SIDE

[Beetwasher]

Sometimes one can only wonder at the amazing confluence of art and reality...

[stellanoir]

1. agreed

[Deja Q]

2. Since when was it on the LIGHT SIDE?

Not at the start; we talked of free men and liberty yet we had slaves.

Sigh.

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

3. When our soldiers and ideas and actions

Looked more like the Rebels and less like the Empire. That ended around the same time the original Star Wars came out, strangely enough.

[Mika]

4. When the F was that?

It started with the ethnic cleansing of the Native American Indians and expropriation of their land (which continues to this day).

[HEIL PRESIDENT GOD]

6. Chill, we're talking aesthetics. nt

[Beetwasher]

7. Well

It's always been there, but now it's being embraced with complete, unabashed abandon.

[marmar]

5. In an interview from the Cannes Film Festival ...

George Lucas makes analogies between Darth Vader's lust for power and the willingness to do anything to achieve it to the United States today.
Darth Bush, Evil Emporer Rove, Count Cheney and DeLay the Hutt. It makes perfect sense.

[SeattleGirl]

9. Actually....

I think Cheney looks more (and in a way acts more) like Jabba!

[seabeyond]

8. my 10 year old tonight wanted to share some insite

the color on the flags. he said red is for the soldiers lost. white is purity, justice, and blue is for truth and wisdom. our flag today in the u.s. is about all red, the blood of the soldiers. the blue and white are missing

i thought this was an intersting conversation for a 10 yr old

[Disturbed]

10. A ten yr. old wiser than a Pres of the U.S.

Yes, Amerika has gone down in many ways.

[Poiuyt]

11. So is the potted fern in my living room

[zann725]

13. LOL!

n/t

[Deep N RedLand]

12. Here's the Link

http://start.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20050515/4286c940_3421_1334520050515-726375412

How long before the Right-Wing uses this as more "proof" of "liberal bias"?
The way Joe Scumbrough was raving about Star Wars, I guess he will have to reverse that and start ranting about how the "Hollywood liberal elites" are further persecuting the Cons.

[The Minus World]

14. Landowners vs. Serfs

What's more amazing is that these historical patterns manage to repeat themselves. Tyrants concentrate power in order to maintain an uneven status quo which favors themselves, and the subjects revolt in order to cast off an increasingly oppressive system of governance which they no longer have use for. On and on the historical cycle goes; as the pendulum swings back and forth, scientific progress steadily arcs upward.

This leads to a consistency in the achievements of technology, and the inevitability that conflict will span outward from regional to continental to global proportions. Lucas merely takes this historically-driven concept one step further, into outer space.

Our reach has outgrown our potential to survive the tragedies of human error.