
106 - How Powerful Are Stories?
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Star Wars Is Not a Space Opera
Star Wars was never meant to be this historically, scientifically accurate expression of some thing that happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. Star words is a myth in the same way that the lord of the rings, the chronicles of narnia are a myth. The marvel stuff is a modern myth. Whoever controls that myth has a tremendous amount of influence on the future. And i guess that's why i'm vested make more sense i took a second run at it there. They're just stories. They control the storyis ecause the story is how we think. It's how we idealize things.
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