If that were not so, then even if he felt incapable himself of creating a worthy successor to that first trilogy, he could have found creative talents to do it for him-- the way an aged former great athlete would be able to recognize which young players take the game to a high level even if he himself can no longer play at that level. My first-born son and a handful of other creative young people who had deeply absorbed the earlier films could have fashioned a worthy sequel for Lucas.
But Lucas went ahead without any true spiritual spark to complete a project that seemed to have no other purpose that to capitalize on the "market" for his "brand." Mammon seems the only god that informed the second coming of Star Wars.
Even the basic creative choice showed the failure of spirit: where the early films focus on a young man on a quest to align himself with the Force and to serve the liberation of worlds, the later films focus on the young man who gives himself over to the dark side.
In today's America, which has itself given itself over to the dark side, this failure of the spirit and of the creative imagination was a profound betrayal of what had been glimpsed, and given some creative expression, in the earlier time.
Lucas and these latter day "prequels" reveal in miniature the spiritual failure of that part of America that was quickening a generation ago, and thus also the present profound need America has for a spiritual renewal --a re-connection with the sacred-- on the part of America's progressive side.
But Lucas went ahead without any true spiritual spark to complete a project that seemed to have no other purpose that to capitalize on the "market" for his "brand." Mammon seems the only god that informed the second coming of Star Wars.
Even the basic creative choice showed the failure of spirit: where the early films focus on a young man on a quest to align himself with the Force and to serve the liberation of worlds, the later films focus on the young man who gives himself over to the dark side.
In today's America, which has itself given itself over to the dark side, this failure of the spirit and of the creative imagination was a profound betrayal of what had been glimpsed, and given some creative expression, in the earlier time.
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