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He says he takes mythology very seriously. Is that really a bad thing? Star Wars is a common dream that a huge percentage of humanity shares. It's the raw material of our imagination at this point. It's as legitimate to take seriously and criticize as the myths of the gods would have been to ancient Romans.

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> It's as legitimate to take seriously and criticize as the myths of the gods would have been to ancient Romans.

No, it isn't. Ancient Romans actually believed that stuff.

Some did, but for a lot if them it was just culture and metaphor. That's why they were always remixing and rebelling the stories.

Edit: just to be clear, I'm not talking about about belief in the existence of the gods, I'm talking about the myths of the gods, which were mixed and matched and changed and definitely were not subject to any kind of orthodoxy.

There are recent new religions, why do the followers believe them? Who's to say that in 200 years people can't separate myth from reality of the Star Wars universe.

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