Man, having it open in Japan a week before it comes here in the U.S. is going to have a effect on the box office since we’ll see the shit that’s being spoiled.
I love it! It's like Terminator: Dark Fate
again in the same year! Couldn't have asked for a better Christmas gift.
The harsh truth, people, is that this is the sign that our current "mythology" is pretty much done for. Because you see, before, the creators of those heroes and cultural landmarks knew that they could profit off of it but in the end, they were building an important part of their culture.
I doubt the ones that created Superman knew just how important their character would become, how they were creating a modern age god that would be "worshipped" and adored by children and adults alike for the decades to come.
However, now that most of those creators moved on to the next world, their legacies have been tarnished and manipulated by the current corrupt degenerate godless establishment. Our cultural "gods" carried a message or theme with them that adapted to our society and ourselves but now they are having those messages and themes re-writing to be current in the worst way possible, all to manipulate the minds of those moving forward.
Star Wars was a space epic of magical swordsmen that showed the journey of a boy becoming a man and the trials that he had to overcome to reach that physical, mental and spiritual maturity. Star Wars taught us that no one is beyond falling to the dark side but never beyond returning to the light either. It taught us to believe in ourselves and something greater (that greater be whatever you decide, it wasnt preachy in any way).
But now Star Wars doesnt feel like star wars anymore, it feels like a giant toy commercial that also seems despered to have a social and existential meaning, its void of true purpose and meaning. If anything, its a good representation of our causeless and increasingly nihilistic society, but unlike the real SW, that would show why thats not good and show us a better way, it instead feeds into that void that they want it to be filled with consumerism supplied by them and them only.
We are in the need to work towards producing new legends and heroes, us, not them. We need stories and legends that threaten the status quo and bring difficult questions and dares to show that yes, life isnt easy and its going to be filled with more bad than good but if you arent part of that good, then its going to eventually fade away. So support indie creators that are slowly rising from the steady extinction of our old brands and companies that once cared.
People need to re-learn the value of creating rather than destroying, even if its for a "good cause" in their eyes.
Very well said. This is why Jordan Peterson's message is so persuasive (even though I don't trust the guy anymore), but more importantly, it reminds me of where I was in college, and the atheist mindset I adopted at the time.
I remember hearing from the likes of Sam Harris and Matt Dillahunty about how you didn't need God or Christianity to be moral and live an upstanding life, taking for granted the "spiritual bulwark" it provided to civil society in America and Europe against the encroachment of Islamic culture (as Richard Dawkins would later admit to). The attitude of the atheist community on YT and among these thought leaders was, "We can build our own moral society apart from
and without what came before. Our world without religion will be a better and more humane world."
But you can't just cut yourself off from your parents, your family, or your heritage like that. You only harm yourself and those you would lead. You forego humility and deference to your betters in favor of pride and arrogant defiance, either out of a sense of vengeance or just mere resentment at not being allowed to do as you pleased. I forget who it was that said this, but they criticized much of the atheist community for choosing to be atheist for emotional reasons--familial or parochial trauma, I'm mad at my father or pastor, etc. This emotionally vengeful attitude what gave way for third-wave feminist ideology in the group, leading to cancel culture and censorship.
So there was a lack of meaning in being an atheist. From my point of view, it was more about being free from your parents to do whatever you felt like doing. Like with feminism and SJW ideology in general, it's not about a set of core values. It's about selfishness, and what you're opposed to. This shows the grand irony of Rose's admonishment against "fighting what you hate." What self-centered, hate-filled group started this fight against pre-existing, healthy franchises and fandoms? And now, which one of them is fighting to save what they love?
Look, I understand the point of executives needing to pump out franchises in order to make money. But I don't understand the exceptional idea of needing to unnecessarily inject progressive liberalism in franchises that people think don't need to come back.
The box office failures of pointless, woke-filled entries in Star Wars, Terminator, Ghostbusters, Men in Black, and Charlie's Angels ought to wake this morons up at least.
It's got to be a mix of politically active agents (and/or career-focused opportunists) with hands-on control of franchises like Star Wars, while the higher ups are either asleep at the wheel thinking everything is fine (i.e. Bob Iger), or they're also drinking the Koolaid and trying to fool the shareholders/BOD that everything's fine. This includes executive-level people like C.B. Cebulski at Marvel who just hired an Asian woman who accused him of racism to prove that he's not a racist.
Well, Im working on something, I got a very close friend who is great at his art (tho this is as far as Im going, no power leveling). And these dark times only inspire me to build something people remember, both because its what I always wanted
And also because I want to tell the establishment to go fuck itself.
Yeah, Godspeed on your creative venture. People like
@FROG and Ya Boi have inspired me to want to get into my creative side and make some money with it. They're rightly proud of their success and they don't care who knows about it. That's healthy.
Like their are classical female warrior archetypes in Joseph Campbell's mythology. What if Rey was based around one of those?
Most of the people at the wheel probably have no idea about mythological female archetypes / heroes. They just want their female characters to be like the male characters, but better.
They dont do Male characters any favors either
Right. Because they want the women to be men and the men to be women. I think it goes hand-in-hand with sexually degenerative fantasies, but that's just me.
