America: The Clone Wars
Monday, June 15, 2009 at 2:28PM 
“The dark side clouds everything. Impossible to see the future is.” -Yoda Star Wars II:Attack of the Clones
In the current future true hope seems to be less and less common to come by. The hope that is widespread nowadays is often based mostly on deception. Take for instance why most of us went to college. To get ahead of the curve financially right? Well turns out that "curve" is laced with a healthy dose of debt also.
Isn't that strange how you in a sense are making just as much financially as those without degrees nowadays. Then there is this idea that you need to work,work, work so that you can spend, spend, spend. It's all to keep strengthening our economy right? Sounds normal, right?
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” Yoda -Star Wars IV: The Empire Strikes Back
Fear, Anger,Hate... three keys of post 2001 thinking. I remember people being angry at Bush, being angry at muslims, angry at anything really. Yet if you look today you can see that plain out hate has just begun to occupy most of our politics and pop culture. PTI is the most popular show on ESPN. All they do is hate on each others ideas all day. Perez Hilton became popular for hating on celebs. Then there is the ridiculous amount of hate for President Obama who has barely spent his first 100 days in Office yet is "The worse president ever". Or the current Charles Hamilton hatred on the net(Well hate on the net in general is strong)?
Why does this seem to be so easy to swallow? Because the Dark Side has now won. Sadly the Star Wars prequels tell a very similar story of our world today. Where the majority Hansel and Gretal there lives into the "Nice lady's" Candy house. Yet few are asking where did this candy house come from in the first place or why is this lady offering these goods to us. Meanwhile the resistance has a hard time finding out who is behind this all because the Jedi's are spread thin across the world. While the main culprit Senator Palpatine continues to throw off the side of good with deception. Like how the thousands of clones in media. How is it that we never saw this coming? Kind of similar to the creation of the Clone Army unknowingly to the Jedi.
"You must unlearn what you have learned." "Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will..." Yoda
To be summed up. A lot of this American Way we have been fed is Capitalist propaganda. Do not embrace this fear. The swine flu will not kill u most likely, Y2k never happened, are borders have always been threatened not just from radical terrorist either. Yes it is hard to accept at first and hurts that you have been mislead. But the resistance will always keep fighting on. Are "New Hope" is always just around the corner.
May the force be with you
Justa
Onto The Music!
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