Star Wars fans really aren’t the brightest…
It’s unbelievable how the whole prequel trilogy was about liberal democracy being turned into a fascist empire and Star Wars fans still don’t get it.
I’ve seen a disproportionately high number of NATO fanboys that just straight up simp for the empire in Star Wars. Pretty sure Zelensky wore a shirt once depicting Ukrainian soldiers as storm troopers stomping on communist symbols.
He did wear a shirt like that:
It literally says “come to the dark side,” bffr
“Dominate or die”, a totally normal and definitely not fascistic worldview
“Dominate or die” is also on the nose. And is that a dead cosmonaut in a CCCP space suit? Fucking wew.
Why does he have Mandalorian and random background X-Wings on a shirt supposed to represent dark side?
Both are fictional supervillains populating western imagination.
(Stalin might also refer to the historic leader of the Soviet Union on whom the fictional Stalin is roughly based)
It’s either Star Wars or Harry Potter, every fucking time. I don’t get it. Is pop culture the only way people can understand geopolitics? Embarrassing…
Also, I think we all have one or two traits that may be similar to others, whether they’re good or evil, doesn’t mean we’re ideologically the same. I love dogs and apparently Hitler did to, does that mean we’re on the same page?
My point is that comparisons like this are asinine and mean absolutely nothing. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
There’s an argument to be made that alienation is so deeply developed in Western capitalist societies and that society has become so dystopian, that people have nothing in reality to identify with. As a result, they identify with the realities presented by their entertainment, i.e. the fantastical worlds they use to escape reality. Be it written fiction, films and series, or even sports.
To put it simply, most Westerners suffering under late stage capitalism, will spend most of their free time escaping reality instead of interacting with each other or the world at large, and the purpose of work, aside from survival, becomes gaining the funds to find new ways to escape.
That, combined with incessant propaganda, cultivated pessimism (widespread political corruption, the daily grind, etc), lack of time to self-educate, and cognitive dissonance (the country I live in and have been taught to be loyal to, can not possibly be that bad) creates a situation where a person’s lens of looking at reality is no longer based on reality. Instead, their escapism is used to explain the world around them.
You can see this when another nation, like Iran, has national heroes that are actual living, breathing people. Westerners get all freaked out by it and call it a “cult of personality” or whatever, because they legitimately cannot imagine having reverence and respect for the accomplishments of a human being, only fictional characters.
Tbf Star Wars can be an actually good allegory considering the inspirations and story it’s supposed to represent, it’s just that libs completely miss the point of it.
Many Quora users have a habit of stating an opinion but word it as a question.
There’s a name for that, “leading question” I think would be the term.
A leading question is a question that suggests a particular answer and contains information the examiner is looking to have confirmed.
So like, the difference between:
“What is your favorite color?”
And:
“Why is your favorite color ‘hates babies’?”
Relatedly, push polls.
If my foot is a house and birds can swim in lava, why does uranium taste like potato sauce?
