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Stephenson: Star-Wars as Parable for the Anti-Industrial Revolution
Posted by Adam Reed on 6/29, 1:01pm
Scientists and technologists have the same uneasy status in our society as the Jedi in the Galactic Republic. They are scorned by the cultural left and the cultural right, and young people avoid science and math classes in hordes.... If the "Star Wars" movies are remembered a century from now, it'll be because they are such exact parables for this state of affairs.
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