Yesterday Bill and I watched a movie I had not watched for a number of years. Star Wars.
Bill was unimpressed. I could not get over how good it was. I told Bill:
“There’s quite a bit of life philosophy within the story. For example, the advice which Obi-Wan and Yoda give to Luke throughout the film is life-changing.”
Bill replied he found the Star Wars movies to be repetitive as well as quite a bit of fluff.
“What do you mean by fluff?” I asked.
“Well, the philosophy you think is so insightful is just platitudes and little else.”
“How can you argue against the ‘yin-yang’ balance of life?
“How can you argue that some people have much more power than others? Some have a greater Chi or internal power than others. Don’t you agree with this?”
Bill replied, “I find even Yoda’s philosophy to be distorted.”
“How so?”
“If you change the statement slightly it will provide quite a bit of insight into life over the past 2-3 decade.”
“What would that be?”
“Well, throughout the 1990s and into the turn of the century, with the world changing massively on 9-11, the war on terror, the Obama Administration, the Trump craziness, and now post-Covid and the Ukraine-Russian border, you have to admit one common theme at work. In the midst of all this, there’s one common, underlying truth that prevails.”
“And what is that?” I asked.
“It’s ’the FARCE is strong’ clarifies everything we’ve been told to believe over the past 30 years.”
“Yoda got that right, didn’t he?”
“He sure did…”
