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[#262] Sus Star Wars As Weapons Against Us (Audio)
Added 2025-09-10 00:18:25 +0000 UTCDimitri and Khalid embark on a wide-ranging quest to uncover the true nature and function of the STAR WARS ritual complex in the Late American Empire, including:
The murky influence of sus Joseph Campbell and the 1974 Stanford Research Institute report “Changing Images of Man”, “THX-1138” and Bay Area mind control programs, whether Star Wars was George Lucas’s sublimated Vietnam War film, Star Wars as the dominant mythopoetic cult of the post-1960s American Empire, the Esalen roots of the Jedi pseudo-religion, Disney’s domestic gladio utilization of Star Wars with a Thousand Faces, whether “Andor” is a heckin’ leftist masterpiece, George Lucas’ curious early work as an Altamont cameraman (and possible stint at Lookout Mountain AFB making internal government films), and much more…
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Also, Lucas has listed Frank Herberts Dune as being a huge inspiration for Star Wars, especially in the way it is a blend of fantasy and sci-fi. Dune was originally published in serialized form in.... Analog magazine, which was run by Campbell! The reason Star Wars fits the bill for the heroes journey is that before Campbell ever wrote that book, he already had an established formula for what "worked" and what supported ideas he was trying to push ect.
Mr.E (Yahya)
2025-09-25 13:51:14 +0000 UTCI hate to erm you guys, this is a great ep and I love all the work u guys do, but I just finished up a deep dive on the history of sci-fi, and I just have to add: John Campbell is far from being simply some myth structure guy with weird new age connections. He was *the* main editor for Astounding/Analog, the largest sci-fi magazine of the entire golden age of sci-fi. Most writers submitted their stories to him first, because he was the arbiter of the mainstream, with other magazines whole business models based on scooping up the stories he refused, and he had very specific ideas about what was sci-fi, and where the genre should go. Of course he was wrong and a nasty bigot to boot, but to say Lucas had no idea who the guy was until after he made Star Wars.... well I think that would require more evidence to back it up than the opposite. Also IIRC the 2019 winner of the Campbell award called him a "fucking fascist" or some such thing during their acceptance speech, making lots of waves and pissing off much of the sci-fi old guard.
Mr.E (Yahya)
2025-09-25 00:06:08 +0000 UTCThe idea of the USSR being The Empire with the Death Star reminiscent of the Sputnik satellite. Reagan as you mentioned used the literal Star Wars name but also coined “The Evil Empire” to describe the Soviets
Orion St. Peter
2025-09-21 16:11:00 +0000 UTCAmazing ep.
Captain Ted
2025-09-14 08:29:10 +0000 UTC
