starwars.md

starwars.md

ok last ill ever say on star wars : George Lucas largely based star wars on the Hero with a Thousand Faces which was essentially Joseph Campbell's explanation as a school teacher of his Skeleton's key to FInnegans Wake. The whole premise about what happens when 'technology' goes wrong -- you get a rebel system which is the way that technology corrects itself, a cycle (called the hero's cycle of which luke was the hero). Technology here is a very loose term and is referenced in the form of 10 'thunders' each of which changed human kind. One of those 'technologies' is actually clothing (another is the web). The role of clothing and uniform plays an important role in the rebel cycle of star wars, the storm troopers are seen as linear, square, formulaic, dogmatic -- a broken machine -- like hierarchical systems. The jedi are spontaneous, creative, non linear, they represent humanity and it's struggle to break free from lines and rules. You could say this is an analogy to the centralized decentralized nature of the web. The force here would be linked data. :)