Tonight’s a beautiful Spring evening. I’m at “The Plaza”:, an independent, historic, local cinema in Miamisburg, Ohio. I picked up a last-minute ticket for a Star Wars re-release of “RETURN OF THE JEDI” as a fun way to enjoy cinema, celebrate May 4th “Star Wars Day” and indulge in a Saturday evening treat.
“Star Wars Day” is our culturally self-selected, globally projected, surface-level, skin deep public image of self. “We’re fun, innovative, home to Hollywood, and storytellers through and through”.
This isn’t a wholly disingenuous projection.
However, the range of reasons for remembrance around this date, May 4th, in America spans a wide spectrum.
Today is also the anniversary of the Kent State shootings – an unfathomable American historical date on which The National Guard in 1970 was weaponized against American People during widespread student protest and anti-war sentiment throughout the United States.
Kent State and Star Wars. Two very different faces of our young country.
The killings at Kent State and Star Wars were born out of the United States in the 1970’s – and today we find echoes of both with us once again.
May some history stay in the past.
And May The 4th be with us all.
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