If Star Wars were written by environmentalists

[JonM]

The very end does say it all . . .

[TackleTheWorld]

Funny, and many parallels to liberty folks.  I thought it was funny that the narrator held up star wars as the best standard to compare to real-life.  I imagine his existence occupying a 15' sphere around a computer, never seeing sunlight, meeting people face to face, or creating a solid object.

What did you think was funny?

[Jacobus]

I guess this is supposed to be a criticism of the more pacifist-minded activists... but I'm not sure.

I went to the website to see if there is some explanation of this.  There's not much there but I found this which I found disconcerting:

Derrick Jensen points out there is more slavery worldwide now than ever before. For too long, the privileged have had the luxury of ignoring the marks of violence and rationalizing that Western Civilization is the most peaceful, plentiful and benevolent culture in human history. Right now, half the world is at war and a billion people are hungry.  We can no longer afford that luxury.

"Do you believe that our culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of living?" asks Derrick Jensen.

"For the last several years I've taken to asking people this question, at talks and rallies, in libraries, on buses, in airplanes, at the grocery store, the hardware store. Everywhere. The answers range from emphatic 'No's' to laughter. No one answers in the affirmative. One fellow at one talk did raise his hand, and when everyone looked at him, he dropped his hand, then said, sheepishly, 'Oh, voluntary? No, of course not.'

"My next question: how will this understanding — that this culture will not voluntarily stop destroying the natural world, eliminating indigenous cultures, exploiting the poor, and killing those who resist  —shift our strategy and tactics?

"The answer? Nobody knows, because we never talk about it: we're too busy pretending the culture will undergo a magical transformation."

So I think the movie-maker is hoping the viewer will be on-board with the non-voluntary approach to getting people to "live sustainably" because... it took a torpedo to blow up the Death Star.

[Ogre]

So... following that logic... if Kat weighs the same as a duck...