A galaxy a lot closer than you think

So, as I'm sure everyone already knows, Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith came out on DVD this past Tuesday, and of course I bought it (but I'm sure you already knew that too).

Now, there was a lot of talk going around when the movie first hit theatres back in May that it was an allegory for today. The movie wasn't just a warning about loosing democracy and ending up with a dictator (which applies more to Nazi Germany than to America today), no to these wackos (whose liberal party affiliation shall remain anonymous) Emperor Palpatine was in fact representative of Vice President Cheney (because, remember, Cheney is really the one with all the power in the White House) and Anakin Skywalker was President Bush. At first I didn't get how that worked, but now I do. You see, Bush is like a dumb kid whose heart might be in the right place, but his ideals are all screwed up (hence, Anakin). Since Cheney could never win the Presidency himself, he settles for Vice President and then uses Bush to slowly bring about his conservative totalitarian regime. All I can say is that they'd better hurry up. Bush only has a couple years left in office and they haven't even started sending any outspoken liberals to the secret gas chambers under the White House yet.

In any case, as I was watching the movie the other day, I too found a striking moral to the story. This movie is an allegory for today. As I watched the two climactic battles, one between Anakin and Obi-Wan and one between Yoda and Palpatine, I sat there thinking, "man, the fate of the whole galaxy really depends on just these two fights." Then I started thinking about all the things that might have happened if the fights had turned out differently, but that wasn't as much fun because I didn't have any of my fellow geeks around to have the conversation with, haha. What I did realize as I was watching thses spectacular fight scenes was the desperation with which they were being fought. Then I asked, "WHY does the fate of the whole galaxy depend on just these two fights?" Simple, because the Jedi, either in their complacency or in their arrogance, had allowed such a terrible evil to grow behind the scenes until that evil had become so powerful that it was too late to stop it.

Liberals want to talk about political corruption, in fact they're desperate to find it (as we've seen recently with all the indictments). Well I tell you it's moral corruption we should be worried about. That's the moral they should be finding in this movie. The liberals in this country cry out about tolerance open-mindedness, immediately framing any argument in such a way that to dissagree with them makes you a closed-minded biggot. No one wants to be a biggot. And so, one by one, the average conservative American "lets it slide." They buy into the perverted rationalization that "what does it matter if it doesn't affect me personally?" Well it does affect you personally. Anything that chips away at the moral fabric of this country affects us all.

But we want to be open-minded, right? Can't we be Christians without our beliefs conflicting with a woman's right to choose, or with everyone's right to marry? Fine. Twist the meaning of whatever Bible verses you want to that lets you fit in better with the secular world. Live with the complacent (or perhaps even arrogant) notion that none of it will affect you. And then one day, when it's too late to finally do anything, the real Palpatine's of this world will have taken over completely. Our closed-mindedness won't just be frowned upon by the secular media, it will be outright illegal. The liberals have always been champions of free speech, until they don't like what's being said.

Anyway, I'm not a big fan of actively looking for morals in movies (since most of them don't actually have any worth finding), but I felt the need to share this little epiphany. Moral of this blog entry: Let's start becomming the outspoken majority, before it's too late.