It still leaves the intereting question of whether we "really" have lost heroes in our society unaswered, but Star Wars isn't evidence of anything like that except that we STILL have many of the same myths. Larger than life un-realistic heroes have been around forever, didn't you read beowolf in high school?
I think you are taking it too literarly. The point of the scene certainly isn't "the next time you have to blow up a death star, don't trust targting computers and just hope it works" but to "trust yourself" in the general sense. when he says technology isn't going to save us, he doesn't mean "from death stars" -- he just means that it we can't rely on techonology to provide the real meaning in our lives -- that we shouldn't let it dictate and control US.
Who would have spent the time and money to create it in the FIRST PLACE if anyone could have broadcasted it? Does he really think people would constantly boycott and constantly be checking -- gee, is this the same network that paid the creators?
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It still leaves the intereting question of whether we "really" have lost heroes in our society unaswered, but Star Wars isn't evidence of anything like that except that we STILL have many of the same myths. Larger than life un-realistic heroes have been around forever, didn't you read beowolf in high school?
I think you are taking it too literarly. The point of the scene certainly isn't "the next time you have to blow up a death star, don't trust targting computers and just hope it works" but to "trust yourself" in the general sense. when he says technology isn't going to save us, he doesn't mean "from death stars" -- he just means that it we can't rely on techonology to provide the real meaning in our lives -- that we shouldn't let it dictate and control US.
Who would have spent the time and money to create it in the FIRST PLACE if anyone could have broadcasted it? Does he really think people would constantly boycott and constantly be checking -- gee, is this the same network that paid the creators?