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Oct 28Liked by Emmet Penney

I loved the point about progressivism and nostalgia being opposites and yet present in the same person at the same time.

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Oct 26Liked by Emmet Penney

Thanks for this! Speaking of Star Wars, the opening scroll apparently originally set the story in the distant future, and was only changed to the distant past not long before the first movie was released.

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