but that seems perfectly typical of what narcissistic mainstream boomer counterculture did. Getting upset that you might get drafted, not being outraged about what's happening to Vietnamese.
It may be that I disagree with your read on the movie because I disagree with your read on the counterculture.
(I don't necessarily disagree with your read on George Lucas as a person who has certainly proven himself unable to see beyond his own ego. I have a lot of feelings about the demonization of the counterculture of the '60's and '70's and how conservatively useful it is to be able to point at a mass protest movement intertwined with societal sea-change and fix it in the memory of succeeding generations as childishly self-involved and futile.)
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It may be that I disagree with your read on the movie because I disagree with your read on the counterculture.
(I don't necessarily disagree with your read on George Lucas as a person who has certainly proven himself unable to see beyond his own ego. I have a lot of feelings about the demonization of the counterculture of the '60's and '70's and how conservatively useful it is to be able to point at a mass protest movement intertwined with societal sea-change and fix it in the memory of succeeding generations as childishly self-involved and futile.)