The problem with Star Wars and 1984 are its blatantly Leftist visions of tyranny. It views tyranny as men in snappy uniforms saying anti-democratic things, hordes of faceless stormtroopers, and secret police dragging off dissenters in the night.
It has no sense at all for liberal tyranny, leftist tyranny, a form which may be far more insidious (At least when there is a pliable population of genetic lefties, such as North Europeans). This cottonball mass, which does not crush but suffocates and blinds, is completely invisible to the leftist architects of these ‘anti-authoritarian’ visions. They fail even to recognize that, deprived of authority, a State is also deprived of responsibility: it becomes totally unaccountable. Contrary to the Leftist vision of Bush 2.0, the man did little and said less. The White House, State Department and a hundred thousand little men with no actual job descriptions invaded Iraq, not some faux-Texan who couldn’t swallow pretzels.
This 1984/Star Wars liberal vision of tyranny is the standard for the left and the fake-right (Republicans), so that they can not see the absolute despotism that strangles them. Even most of the ‘extreme’ conservatives, who say we might need to ‘have a second American revolution’ don’t recognize how far beyond that things have gotten. They don’t think about the FDA killing thousands a people a year by obstructing drugs, they don’t think about increased border patrols generating intense gang wars due to a decrease in drug mules, etc.
As fun as it is to paint a Hitler mustache on Obama or put a Sith hood on Cheney the reality is that these cliched depictions distract from the reality of liberal tyranny and its very different methods.
The problem with Star Wars and 1984 are its blatantly Leftist visions of tyranny. It views tyranny as men in snappy uniforms saying anti-democratic things, hordes of faceless stormtroopers, and secret police dragging off dissenters in the night.
It has no sense at all for liberal tyranny, leftist tyranny, a form which may be far more insidious (At least when there is a pliable population of genetic lefties, such as North Europeans). This cottonball mass, which does not crush but suffocates and blinds, is completely invisible to the leftist architects of these ‘anti-authoritarian’ visions. They fail even to recognize that, deprived of authority, a State is also deprived of responsibility: it becomes totally unaccountable. Contrary to the Leftist vision of Bush 2.0, the man did little and said less. The White House, State Department and a hundred thousand little men with no actual job descriptions invaded Iraq, not some faux-Texan who couldn’t swallow pretzels.
This 1984/Star Wars liberal vision of tyranny is the standard for the left and the fake-right (Republicans), so that they can not see the absolute despotism that strangles them. Even most of the ‘extreme’ conservatives, who say we might need to ‘have a second American revolution’ don’t recognize how far beyond that things have gotten. They don’t think about the FDA killing thousands a people a year by obstructing drugs, they don’t think about increased border patrols generating intense gang wars due to a decrease in drug mules, etc.
As fun as it is to paint a Hitler mustache on Obama or put a Sith hood on Cheney the reality is that these cliched depictions distract from the reality of liberal tyranny and its very different methods.