I fell for it, I usually don’t but I did.
Well played sir.
he’s asserted that star wars was an allegory for the vietnamese rebels vs the evil american empire, so yeah, he’s our dude
not sure what’s going on here but his bad screenwriting isn’t our problem
It’s usually forgotten, but it can’t be overstated just how pervasive that sort of thinking was in western counter-culture for most of the 20th century, and even broader western culture. Even twelve or so years ago you’d have prominent quasi-left figures like Richard Stallman promoting academics who’d fervently argue for the age of consent to be abolished and for sexual assault to be legalized/decriminalized, and unlike today there was no backlash over it. I describe the old sort of vague left and left-adjacent counter-culture as being full of “chauvinist libertines” for a reason: it was in large part dominated by men who wanted their own personal liberation from anyone who would tell them “no,” and who would latch that agenda on to whatever movement they could get away with. It was the same story with the Hippie movement: general ideological incoherence surrounding the reasonable premise of “war bad, actually” and filled to the brim with chauvinist sex pests in it for the hedonism.
it was in large part dominated by men who wanted their own personal liberation from anyone who would tell them “no,” and who would latch that agenda on to whatever movement they could get away with
This describes 2000s 4chan culture to a T.
Neat to know it’s part of a whole tradition of weird contrarian sex pests. For sarcastic values of “neat.”
I’m by no means an expert but I get the impression that “Raping children is bad” didn’t become the prevailing attitude with normal people in the Anglosphere until the early 80s.
got a source for that? cause i wanna believe, but i fell for this meme and fool me once…
People really oversell George Lucas being radical in any way but here’s the reference: https://youtu.be/fv9Jq_mCJEo?t=56
It would be a dream if he was a secret communist or something and his whole ‘being a liberal Democratic party schmoozer’ schtick is a facade and he’s funding left-wing movements in the Global South or something, but I really really doubt it xD
One can dream of having class traitors that powerful. I feel like his and Cameron’s “radicalism” is mostly knowing there’s something extremely evil and wrong about the US, but still thinking it can change over time or just being blinded and comforted by money and having a big platform.
fuck uuuuuu
GOOD post
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