Happy Star Wars Day.

… May the Force (Fourth) be with you.

How completely cringe worthy.
May Fourth was a marketing gimmic for Disney. They’d just bought Lucas Films and where releasing new Start Wars movies. This day was hyped by toy stores and the filming industry and very nearly made into an unofficial official holiday.

But. the Star War movies are mostly crap and May Fourth has faded away, but still the marketing gimmic lives on even if the marketing itself has died out.

Yay for fandom.

Pie day (March 14th) makes a lot more sence and isn’t backed by a multi-national company that hasn’t had an original idea in…. forever? Not counting Pixar, of course. Up, Wall-e, Inside Out, and Ratatouille * are * pretty original. Although, I really don’t count Pixar to be Disney proper as Pixar is widely under it’s own jurisdiction as long as it keeps making money.

Although that may have changed. I’ve heard that Raya and the Last Dragon is a strait rip from The Last Airbender. I haven’t seen either one of these, so I can’t be sure, but it wouldn’t be suprising. Disney has bleed a lot of green over the past year.

Anyway, happy near-holiday created by a fairly greedy and uncompromizing company that attempts to continually shape children to give birth to a generation of new customers.

I guess I am a little cynical today.

Why shouldn’t I be?

Sure, there are good people out there, but not good all the time.
Then, there’s some people who are good none of the time — depending on what the definition of good is.
What a person thinks is good isn’t what everyone else thinks is good.

Thanos is a great example.
He destroyed half the population to avoid war and famine. His tactic has been proven through real history. Black Death anyone? The reduction in population drove up wages and general happiness of those who were left. People who felt lost in a million suddenly became “one” in a million. That’s a big difference. What they did or didn’t do in life suddenly mattered.

I’m not advocating mass murder. Not at all.
But, from an intellectual perspective, Thanos was right.

Now, in the MCU, people are snapped back and want the lives, property, and relationships that they had before. But, their property has been taken over by those who survived. People have died. Their lives effectively ended and what they worked for disappeared.

Bull.

For some reason, I’m feeling like some of my more frivilous life goals won’t be recognized. I wan’t to go to Ireland, Scotland, and Japan. Checking out musty London… Greece…. Africa… Germany… just anywhere really…. won’t happen. I haven’t done it in the first fourty years. I doubt that I’ll do so in my last fourty… if I have that many years left

Don’t know where that came from.

Anyway… Disney is great as long as you don’t think about it too much or think about it at all, really.

And who would actually want to think?
Being different blossoms fomo – fear of missing out – and no one wants to stand out and be unique any more. At least, no one wants to be unique in a truely uniquely way that disregard all distructive socieitial constructs and any sort of independent thought.

Bleh