via: other lisa
the other lisa talked about the latest star war movie in her blog:
But what was really resonating just a bit too much for me were the film's themes. Not so much the "how does a good man become a bad man?" one. The "how does a good government, a republic, devolve into an evil Empire?" part. The part where the rule of law is subverted, where we are told to sacrifice freedom for security, "in defense of democracy."
I'm far from the only one to have noticed these parallels. The New York Times and the Washington Post both cover the story at length, including reactions from the foreign press ("Agence France Presse reports that the movie delivers "a galactic jab to US President George W. Bush," according to the Post).
it's not rare that a fable is employed to give advice to politicians or, in a cctv case, to a government.
a recent cctv "world of animals" documentary tells us an interesting story. a small village in yunnan province are invaded by wild elephants, villagers took a confrontational approach to fight against those wild elephants, to retaliate, wild elephants destroied even more properties of the small village, especially their crops.
i almost fall asleep until a villager with different mentality appears. he by chance saved a sick wild elephant in his farmland, and after that, all the wild elephants don't eat his crops but continue to eat others' crops. this villager asks his fellow villagers to give some foods for the wild elephants and treat them well, surprise, the wild elephants stop destroying their crops.
at the time this documentary film was showed in cctv, the washington government had a hard time with north korea, no matter whether the film director wants to say something to GW or not, it is a good fable for the US-NK relationship.