you know about human beings. Is it conceivable to you that there is a point of wisdom beyond the conflicts of truth and illusion by which our lives can be put back together again? That we should develop new models. It's in the religions. All religions are true for their time. If you can find what the truth is and separate it from the temporal inflection, just bring your same old religion into a new set of metaphors and you've got it. Do you see some new metaphors emerging in the modern medium for the old universal truths that you've talked about, the old story? Well, I think that the Star Wars is a valid mythological perspective, and the problem of the machine and the state is a machine. Is the machine going to crush humanity or serve humanity? And humanity comes not from the machine but from the heart. Luke, help me take this mask off. But you'll die. I think it was in the Return of the Jedi when Skywalker unmasks his father.

the father had been playing one of these machine roles, a state role. He was in uniform, you know, and the removal of that mask was an undeveloped man. There’s kind of a worm by being executive of a system. One is not developing one's humanity. I think that George Lucas really, really did a beautiful thing there.

The Father State System | Mythology | Star Wars | Joseph Campbell

The Father State System | Mythology | Star Wars | Joseph Campbell

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