me remembering that luke and rey didn’t even have a good relationship and we didn’t get to see them as a parental relationship or even as friends
cant believe they expected us to believe luke saw rey; a lonely kid from a desert planet dreaming about finding her parents, struggling with her identity, and dealing with the weight and pressure of bringing back the jedi…. and he didnt want to help her. not only that, they also made them argue the whole time. SICK
the real luke skywalker would meet rey and be like oh i know you. i’m your dad now. i can teach you three things: how to Force, how to make the perfect cup of hot chocolate, and how to destroy fascists. let’s go do barrel-rolls in x-wings
the way the real luke skywalker would have taken a single glance at that feral desert girl and been like. “my child now.” come here girl I’ll teach you how to build moisture vaporators so you never have to exploit yourself for water. yes this is more important than jedi training. yes we can cover that later. oh you want to fight kyle? oh you’re struggling with the idea that he might still have a soul? ok learn from my mistakes and don’t lose a hand in a fight you can’t win, but also did i tell you about the time i beat my dad’s ass so hard he bounced back to the light side? funny story actually,
all of this in the 10 minutes after she gives him anakin’s lightsaber
Rey: i was abandoned by my family on a backwater desert planet and waited for them for most of my life before a droid and the man who would become my best friend showed up and i chose to leave everything i knew behind in order to help save them and help the rebellion. i am very strong with the force and want to learn in order to protect the ones i love but my own capacity for darkness scares me. i need help understanding who i am and what my power means
Luke:
the force: here, have an apprentice who’s a metaphorical narrative mirror for you. she needs guidance and a mentor figure.
luke: oh you mean my new daughter
the force: what
Rey: here dad meet my friends
Luke, meeting orphan mechanic rebel rose tico, pilot with a flair for drama poe dameron, and man who chose goodness in the face of overwhelming evil and is powerful in the force finn: oh you mean all my new kids
luke, talking to the force ghosts of the jedi council: so my first apprentice grogu has a mandalorian dad right? and he told me about how he rescued him and adopted him and how that’s custom for mandalorians, right? to adopt the children they rescue. so THEN i got hit with a tax bill for religious organizations and i thought you know what doesn’t get taxed? children. like when you have a child. you’re not paying the government for having a child. SO i thought you know what i ain’t payin the government shit-
force ghost obi-wan: but isn’t leia the chancellor?
luke: EXACTLY imagine paying taxes to your sister!!! i’d rather die. anyway that’s how i ended up with 15 children. they’re all skywalkers.
yoda: force-sensitive, some of them are not.
luke: yes. your point?
Alternatively, make them argue nonstop, but make it petty.
Think of the historical arguements or petty generational feuds in communes or agrarian communities, then make it so they’re coming from hot-ass deserts and thus have even thinner tempers than when you’re surrounded by greenery.
I want these two to come from different desert (survival) subcultures and have them never let the other forget it. Like, the exact moment they see each other they recognize just what the other is (ie, ‘an interior type of desert dweller’) and the Cain Instinct kicks in two milliseconds later.
I want these two to be 5+ decades apart in age and both acting like they’re prepubescents that need to be put in different corners. I want Han and Leia to have known Luke for decades, and never seen him act as childish as he does when he’s bickering with Rey about the proper way to keep an eye out for sandstorms or whether snake tastes better raw or cooked over fire.
Luke’s narrative in the sequel trilogy was… not great.
This, this I like.
I saw people praising his role saying it reflects how “our generation feels about the past one letting us down”…and not sure I think that’s good and not just projecting onto the wrong type of character
own and control property to provide a variety of goods and services
We could all trade with each other
voluntarily exchange with one another in accord with our own interests
And eat for practically free
exchange freely without intervening forces (demand and supply freely set prices in markets)
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To quote the IMF,
“Capitalism is often thought of as an economic system in which private actors own and control property in accord with their interests, and demand and supply freely set prices in markets in a way that can serve the best interests of society.
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Hmmm, sure sounds a lot like Capitalism…
Oh good grief! The OP is referring to a barter system. Profit does not appear in that system, but “free” food does. The limitations of a barter system preclude the widespread use of barter in a modern technical society, so the entire debate is moot, but at no point is the OP alluding to capitalism.
“Conservatives” do two things well: 1. play fast and loose with terms, and 2. overplay a winning hand.
“Sad”—Donald Trump
Unfortunately, you are incorrect because “profit” does appear in that system. The mistake that you are making is that you are assuming “profit” in the context of financial, but in an economic context, you must take into account the opportunity costs and perceived values of the individuals.
Furthermore, you are also correct that OP is alluding to bartering, which does not necessarily dictate the existence of capitalism as bartering can exist in other systems.
…with that being said, there are three additional criteria that OP mentions that do evidence them alluding to capitalist bartering system (even if unintentionally).
They specify “if we each”, which indicates more of individualism than collectivism, i.e. a pillar of capitalism.
They specify “practically free” in discussion of trade between individuals, which would typically not exist in a non-capitalist bartering system as those systems generally have non-free bartering.
They specify “food is free” after explaining that this system would be based on people producing goods to trade, whereas in most non-capitalist systems, defining food as free would have no criteria that one must provide a good/service in exchange.
Overall, we can’t say for 100% certainty they are referring to capitalism, but there is reasonable amount of evidence that they are.
(*sigh*) a winning hand overplayed ^^
One-sixteenth of the United States is on fire, over half-a-million of our countrymen have died in a pandemic, suicide continues to outpace murder as a cause of death, and what are we doing?
We argue semantics. We play on our phones.
In time God will damn us, and we will have earned it.
This is such a hilarious response to being corrected. So uniquely boomer. A work of art really.
some of you haven’t realized that improving the world is a battle of miserable inches and not something that can be done in a glorious blaze of revolution and it shows
