I actually have met a concerning number of people who idolize The Empire in the original Star Wars trilogy. The one who was always loudest about it willingly moved to Florida recently and is turning sadly right wing. He used to be a super smart punk rocker, too.
Weird. I dont remember Neo murdering civilians and then parading their naked bodies around while pelting them stones.
I also dont recall the rebel founding charta mentioning something about a holy war of eradication against all clones in the galaxy.
Maybe, just maybe, the real isnt like a neat 3 hour film with clearly established sides and maybe we could acknowledge that neither Hamas nor the fucking IDF is remotely close to being good. But nah, that would require us to not make cheap point for likes on twitter.
And which side in the real world is the "resistance"? The one that is portrayed by state sponsored media? The one that has a president in the White House? The one that dominates modern culture? If you're a Democrat or a Republican, all of these statements apply to you, and you're not part of the resistance, you're part of the institution.
Turns out siding with the resistance in a movie doesn't cost anything. It doesn't have the potential to have your family tracked and killed by the state. It doesn't have the potential for you to end up even worse off than you already are.
A lot of people side with their own resistances in the real world, but there's a reason all of the resistance fighters in the movies are beaten-down, destitute people. They've got nothing to lose. We've still got our bread and circuses, so we don't have the fight.
Most if not all of these have one side that is clearly in the wrong. Real life is more complicated. Conflicts are usually gray vs. grey, with both sides having identifiable faults and justifications. But even then, if you spent all your time seeing the world from the perspective of certain designated protagonists you'll likely sympathize with them anyway.
It's you. You're acts are evil. Everyone else. Shit, I live on a miniscule amount as an art and do very well because I'm obscenely lucky and have good people in my life still does it's magick syphoning my act's mana for it's purpose.
They are the best people I've known but they're still evil. What they do they call a job. It's someone else's will and you can carry as much of the right kinds of things to do but none will ever unwrite your actions as anything but literally evil synchronized in servitude.
You want to not be evil? Burn the dollar. There is no need to damage people. Just the Talisman.
