I share the same viscerally negative reaction of all sane men, when it comes to the idea of nerd holiday. Normals have holidays. Nerds have books. Hi, I’m a nerd, and the odds of your enjoying my world-building math are as low as me enjoying your social event.
So, I didn’t celebrate the “May the Fourth be with you”. Dude, it always is. Every year. I typically spend it sandbagging my apartment in preparation for Cinco De Mayo.
Meanwhile, at least two people who claim to be nerds, have demonstrated the psychological dysfunction of retconning history in support of identity politics. If something is bad today, then it has always and inevitably been bad, and we only noticed after the arsonists finally managed to kill our fun. Yes?
Now I admit, when George Lucas found out he had something capital-G Good going, he intentionally screwed the pooch. Come on, man, Ewoks? But money triumphed over ((hokey religion)) and he enabled the Star Wars Expanded Universe.
Then he screwed the pooch again with the prequels.
Then the devil mouse paid to take over, and immediately screwed the pooch.
Then Kathleen Kennedy screwed the pooch, got pregnant and gave birth to seven abominations on ten hills, as documented in Revelation.
Dayumn, what was it that Star Wars did so RIGHT?!
The Empire was right
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By Didactic Mind, 4 May 2024
I first started watching STAR WARS seriously as a teenager, and got to be an avid fan of the series, for many years. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, I consumed vast amounts of the Expanded Universe lore – right up until the point where LucasArts released the godawful “Legacy of the Force” series, which undid so much of the already established lore. By the time 2012 rolled around, I had essentially given up on the whole thing, but I still retained a great deal of affection for the original films.
I also grew up in the 80s and have some small awareness of the SWEU canon.
*cue Jaws soundtrack*
There was something simple and very appealing about the story. A ragtag band of freedom fighters, struggling against a vast and overwhelming galactic Empire, led by an evil Emperor and his terrifying cyborg henchman – it is a great story, or at least, it seems to be, on the surface.
However, time, age, and perspective has taught me that perhaps the Empire was actually in the right. This is especially true after watching the abominations unleashed upon the canon by the House of the Devil Mouse, which has done so much to invert everything that was great about the original movies.
That’s exactly the mindset I’m talking about. “The witch messed it up on Devil Mouse’s orders, so it must always have been secretly bad.” Just on first glance, the fact it was targeted for corruption suggests it was originally something good.
Evil doesn’t bother to corrupt what is already excrement. That’s why they made a remake of Robocop but not Robocop 2.
For one thing, as Our Beloved and Dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH), Voxemort the Most Malevolent and Terrible, pointed out, via his friend, Owen Benjamin:
To celebrate May the 4th we should all appreciate what a Boomer institution Star Wars is:
Luke forsook his rural upbringing to take part in a political campaign he had no place in.
Leah [sic] was a strong independent feminist.
Obi-Wan was a childless hippie who devoted his life to eastern mysticism.
Han is a wandering deadbeat who lives with his dog and is obsessed with his car.
Darth Vader abandoned his family to pursue his career.
The robots are in an openly gay relationship.
Everyone treats the empire like the great evil while fully enjoying the comforts and protections it provides.
And that is before we get to a very interesting (well, for certain definitions of the word) part of the old lore, from before the Devil Mouse takeover.
And before we get there, WTF d00d? You claim to be a Star Wars nerd, then dis with THIS?
Luke “forsook” a pair of toasted corpses. Quote: “There is nothing for me here now. I want to learn the ways of the Force and become a Jedi, like my father.” How irresponsibly anti-family, anti-tradition and selfish of him. /sarc
Leia was nobility. She had no chance at a normal life. Although I confess the S&I accusation has some truth; it should not have been the female of the group, who suggested escape via garbage chute.
Then again, she kept her hair done while imprisoned under torture. Real feminists don’t even shave their armpits, even when they’re White House press secretaries. Being pretty is feminine, not feminist.
Obi-Wan was a warrior monk who devoted his later life to the safety of a child that his apprentice should never have fathered in the first place. Again, what an irresponsible, selfish and anti-family attitude. /sarc
Darth Vader abandoned his career to pursue a forbidden family, with results that only illustrated why that prohibition existed in the first place. Blah blah virgin birth but even Jesus had a daddy.
Han Solo was a hotshot Academy cadet, who lost his promising career when he stood up for a falsely accused Wookie. The red pinstripe on his trousers is actually an award for valor. He made general between Episodes IV and V, as soon as he found a place that accepted him as he was instead of forcing him into a slot.
Accusing R2D2 and C3PO of being sodomite is outright eisegesis… the theological crime of writing one’s own beliefs into Scripture. What Devilmouse did with Lando Calrissian in that one movie so bad, I couldn’t finish watching even the rage-reviews.
And the Empire… yes, the Empire was pure evil, and primarily because… AHEM… its top leadership was a ((foreign elite)) practicing an occult sorcery that most of the Empire didn’t believe still existed even as they literally choked on it.
The Boomers could never have opposed that, and when ((George Lucas)) realized what he’d done, was when he imported all the Eastern Mysticism to squid-ink the Light vs Dark dynamic of the Force. It ain’t no yin-yang duality when the two sides butcher each other on sight, with plasma torches repurposed as shivs. That’s hate, not balance.
Speaking of the Empire’s evilness…
Back when the “New Jedi Order” series was still part of the canon, a new generation of writers, starting with R. A. Salvatore, introduced a terrifying enemy into the STAR WARS universe, called the Yuuzhan Vong. This was a conglomeration of extra-galactic invaders, travelling the frozen void between galaxies on gigantic worldships, with no connection to the Force, and worshipping pain and suffering. They routinely disfigured and mutilated their own bodies, and cultivated bio-organic weapons and starships, as their religion dictated that anything mechanical was an abomination.
As the storylines evolved, the authors weaved the Yuuzhan Vong into the backstory of the legendary Grand Admiral Thrawn…
That was the redemption story arc for the Empire. It was backsliding badly after Episode VI, on account of the leadership void left by the ((death cult))’s excision… Rebel Alliance on the upswing and learning, yet again, that winning a war is a much different skillset from operating a government… and into this vacuum of “what good is the Empire, let it rot” stepped Thrawn, an honorable and principled master strategist. A father figure, if you will.
Even so, redeeming the brutal Empire required an enemy whose very definition was nonexistence to the Force. An exclusively materialist threat for an exclusively materialist war machine.
Here’s something to look for when you watch the movies again. There are no safety rails on any of the Imperium’s sets. That was an intentional decision by Lucas, to visually reinforce the Empire’s lack of concern for all life.
The context for the Force was a science fantasy setting. Technology had advanced to the point where high-performance FTL drives were as common as off-road vehicles in Current Year. Into this super-tech civilization, was injected the idea that the soul was STILL the driving force behind it all… a spiritual world barely glimpsed under the weight of blasters, sentient AI and galactically-organized crime syndicates. That’s not a Confucian concept.
Thus, the imposition of a purely secular threat that broke canon in a big way. It worked because for its redemption, the Empire needed an enemy that the Empire was the best-equipped power in the galaxy to fight. Hence the literally soulless, extinction-threat YV.
So, you see, the Rebellion actually disrupted the urgent project the Emperor had in mind, to protect the entire galaxy from invasion. And, as such, they committed a great and terrible evil.
Maybe the Empire should have told them about the YV threat? Oops, the YV threat had to be retconned after the fact in order to give the Empire that redemption chance.
Look at the Rebellion. It wasn’t a hipster commune of drug addicts and feminists; again, that was Kennedy’s wicked imposition. The Rebellion was an Alliance of various governments and powers along the galactic Outer Rim, who didn’t like the Empire strip-mining their planets and imposing one-size-fits-nobody bureaucracy. The Rebel ships were standardized. They fought in uniforms and formations. A better analogy would be the European Reformation, when all the peoples who’d been wronged by the Vatican over generations finally banded together to break its power permanently.
A bloody affair, both then and in the Star Wars universe. Into that bloody futuristic conflict was flung A New Hope…
Luke Skywalker, wanting to grow up to be just like his dad...
Then finding out his dad was the absolute, most inhumanly worst of the Imperial lot…
And then refusing to give up, risking his own life to bring his father out of the darkness that had trapped him.
Episodes IV, V and VI.
Star Wars was not a fantasy of White America’s destruction.
Star Wars was not about Boomercucks celebrating their antinatalist attitudes.
Star Wars was about fatherhood.
It was Disney/Kennedy that overwrote Star Wars’ message of fatherhood with their polluted message of identity politics. Today, the “demographics is destiny” camp adopts that polluted message because they want their identity group to be the winner.
Which required them to rewrite history in the same ways, and for the same purposes, as Mickey Satan’s in-house whores. Can they be redeemed? Is there a New Hope to send them? Or should I check out into a tramp freighter until the Suck blows over?
The people who can only see materialist solutions to materialist problems, are blind to the Force of our supernatural reality.
Also another example of why you can’t just knee jerk the other way whenever something is popular, even among leftists. I have a running list in my head of accidentally based things, stuff that wasn’t intentionally right wing but it kind of turned out that way. That 90s comedy Blast from the Past for example, I don’t think they intended to make a reactionary film but they did.
Honestly I’m just not impressed by Vox Day, I hope I’m not being uncharitable but he strikes me as the kind of guy you just can’t tell anything he’s “never wrong”, he’s “hood confident”.
Owen used to be funnier but like a lot of people who unhook from the narrative, it can make you prone to believe just about anything.
I liked the Ewoks as a kid, including the Ewok movies which were like fantasy more than scifi with an evil witch or sorcerer, humans that crash landed on Endor and had to live with the Ewoks and had some technology (blasters) but no running ship to get off the planet so have to fight some Orc looking monsters as allies of the ewoks against the evil wizard.