3. I don’t think there’s anything surprising here, and it’s pretty representative of the sometimes playful (sometimes malicious) games that are played with old legends in mass culture—particularly by people Jordan Peterson would label as postmodernists.
1. I haven’t really consumed much mass cult in the past 8 years, although I was a major user in the past. I stopped watching TV quite a while back, and when I glimpse it now it’s like it’s coming from another universe. But, playing devil’s advocate, how do we measure it?
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2. I must admit that even my father—an engineer w/ barely any interest in movies—saw a Star Wars film a few years ago & said to me, “There was something odd about Han Solo.” He couldn’t describe it, since it’s not his thing. I presumed that the character was dicked with by SJWs.
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3. I do think it’s a sign of industries in decline, although part of me thinks it’s just my age (i.e. there was someone my age now in 1994 watching “Maid Marian and Her Merry Men” thinking “My God, this is outrageously weirded/political correctness gone mad.”
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4. The idea of unavoidable and universal decline isn’t settling. But, on the other hand, I suppose it’s a bit like painting the Forth Bridge, once you finish you have to start again bc the first bit has declined. Endless re-painting to fight entropy.
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