this is where we've reached with Star Wars. somewhere out there is a fan debate raging on a forum about Rey's bra size, or whether or not Chewbacca is dying his fur (should't he be gray by now?), or any other absurdity that is an element of historical life but not mythical story.
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it's a sign of the times. when the cultural imagination is complete tapped out it's myths transform into histories and become auto-farcical bullshit, which still resonates with people, because that's what everything else feels like too.
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a restoration of cultural imagination would lead to explosion of half-baked mythos' popping up all over the place. leave room for the imagination of the audience so they can make it their own. Star Wars is no longer leaving room for the imagination of the audience. It's done.
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remember though if you protest the decay of the mythic into the hyperprosaic in terms too strong you will make everybody VE-RY AN-GRY http://www.warrenellis.com/m-john-harrison-on-worldbuilding/ …
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*extremely rational voice* they burned Giordano Bruno at the stake too
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heh, that reminds me of one of my close encounters with high strangeness that was instigated by my purchase of an M John Harrison novel on Amazon. The novel "Light" arrived with a bookmark with the Great Invocation written on it, this one, from Lucis Trust
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this of course led me down a rabbit hole of figuring out who Lucis Trust is, who Alice Bailey was, and of course, trying to puzzle out whether or not they had an operative in the Amazon fulfillment center slipping invocations into thematically appropriate books
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anyway my current place-of-work is about 500 feet away from their headquarters, which is a coincidence OR IS IT
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