Dimitri and Khalid embark on a wide-ranging quest to uncover the true nature and function of the STAR WARS ritual complex in the Late American Empire, including:
The murky influence of sus Joseph Campbell and the 1974 Stanford Research Institute report “Changing Images of Man”, “THX-1138” and Bay Area mind control programs, whether Star Wars was George Lucas’s sublimated Vietnam War film, Star Wars as the dominant mythopoetic cult of the post-1960s American Empire, the Esalen roots of the Jedi pseudo-religion, Disney’s domestic gladio utilization of Star Wars with a Thousand Faces, whether “Andor” is a heckin’ leftist masterpiece, George Lucas’ curious early work as an Altamont cameraman (and possible stint at Lookout Mountain AFB making internal government films), and much more…