The third time you watch Star Wars Episode VII in theaters (or if you’re my brother, the fifth), you tell yourself that everything is different, started over, and the world isn’t what we know or how it seemed for the last 30 years. New faces and places, new ships and democracies, new lightsabers and plot twists and heroic deaths.<\/p>\n

But that’s not really true. Just because we’re in a different time doesn’t mean it’s unknown. Star Wars has followed the cyclical storyline for decades. History repeats itself. We can determine the next hundred years by researching the past.<\/p>\n

Of course I’m getting too deep. Star Wars is fun, and should be enjoyed and beloved by adults and children. It should inspire imaginations, encourage dreams. But I see it as a path towards a future, one where we teeter on the edge of light and dark, and must learn from our fathers’ mistakes, else we are lost forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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