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RIP Carrie Fisher
I meant to write this weeks ago, and never got round to it... I think it was on Darcy's birthday that we re-watched The Force Awakens, and I realised how well the Star Wars Movies can be seen as metaphors for our times - or a modern day fairy tale to help guide us...
We thought we had won, that things were looking up, and yet there's danger arising again. Doesn't matter what it's called, it's always the same. I jotted down a few things:
The New Order - all the white supremacy groups rising, both in America and Europe
General Hux - handsome alt-right leader
Resistance - all of us
Kylo Ren - radicalised white youth/male Trump offspring
General Leia - Hillary Clinton (she has fought all her life, but still carries on, because it's a job needs doing)
There may have been more, but it's all horribly sad now. I still think it fits, and that we will need Princess Leia's example more than ever. There may not be a Rey, no shining new heroine to help save us. We just have to be the Resistance, all of us doing our bit to help turn the tide and make sure the Dark Side doesn't win.
It's not a battle fought in space ships, but every day - organising, protesting, talking to people trying to open their minds, helping those that need it.
ETA: Oh and this too - storified!
(And all this as I was still trying to process George Michael's death. This year is brutal.)
We thought we had won, that things were looking up, and yet there's danger arising again. Doesn't matter what it's called, it's always the same. I jotted down a few things:
The New Order - all the white supremacy groups rising, both in America and Europe
General Hux - handsome alt-right leader
Resistance - all of us
Kylo Ren - radicalised white youth/male Trump offspring
General Leia - Hillary Clinton (she has fought all her life, but still carries on, because it's a job needs doing)
There may have been more, but it's all horribly sad now. I still think it fits, and that we will need Princess Leia's example more than ever. There may not be a Rey, no shining new heroine to help save us. We just have to be the Resistance, all of us doing our bit to help turn the tide and make sure the Dark Side doesn't win.
It's not a battle fought in space ships, but every day - organising, protesting, talking to people trying to open their minds, helping those that need it.
honor carrie fisher:
— Isaiah Breen (@isikbreen) December 27, 2016
- normalize mental illness and its treatment
- take life a little less seriously
- destroy a fascist regime
ETA: Oh and this too - storified!
I storified all my Princess Leia/General Organa tweets for y'all https://t.co/8Xkt8K46lN
— Anne Thériault (@anne_theriault) December 27, 2016
(And all this as I was still trying to process George Michael's death. This year is brutal.)