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How The Force Can Fix The World (with Stephen Kent)

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Star Wars - The Masking and Unmasking

In your book, you discuss this under the heading of empathy in star wars. It's kind of masking and unmasking, and through that, like humanizing and dehumanizing. You hit on the moment in the forect rakens when cilo ren is fighting ray for the first time,. And he removes his mask, and she is startled that he's not a i mean, we get finn taking off his mask, but by and large, storm troopers are disposable face les goons who the rebels are happy to just mow down. So what are we to make of that? Like, on the one hand, trying to humanize but on the other hand, if they

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