@joewo And it's a lot harder to be in the Resistance when the consequences are real. When the threat of force (not that "Force") is real. When the secret police, the prisons, the truncheons, and the bullets are real. When you have to do more than put on your dark glasses and swing your light saber.
@joewo I did not see Divergent or V for Vendetta (as with The Hunger Games, see above). We all live by our fictions, and you are not in the resistance if you borrowed your trembling cup of meaning these movies. Resistance is making your own meaning.
@joewo I didn't watch The Hunger Games, because it came out after I stopped going to movies and stopped feeding my brain Hollywood pap. I watched Stars Wars in 1977 and did not side with the resistance, but instead wondered why are all these people falling for this sub-Buck Rogers space opera and it's cardboard heroes. I watched the Matrix and did not side with the resistance because I don't like Manichean theology served up with slow motion kung fu and dark sunglasses. ...
I'm in a quandary. I'd buy tickets for this now--one of the first jazz albums I ever bought was Hancock's VSOP Ouintet album, back in ...'77. I'd love to hear Hancock playing with anybody live--but for all I know by November I may be a refugee or in hiding or...
@xlrobot I think it's a stretch to posit that much in the way of history will survive for any humans alive in 200 years to contemplate or have opinions about. Myths will be made, out of confused memories, and who knows who the heroes of their myths will be.
My grandson (age 10) and I are listening to Jethro Tull's Thick As A Brick on the phonograph, which he choose. I told him about the police teargassing the crowd at the Red Rocks Amphitheater concert in the foot hills outside Denver in 1971. I don't think he understands what I'm talking about. But he's grooving to the music. It makes me want to cry.
I'm a Pentecostal Atheist putting on a tent show revival, speaking in tongues and witnessing to the Word of not god but the Mammon of my counterfeits of meaning