Actually, he's very much the man he was before. He's a socially conscious member of the 1960s generation who has retained his ideals and optimism who, like all great artists, hopes to spread to others through his art (THX 1138, Young Indy TV series, Star Wars prequels, Red Tails, etc.). He is a very good man, who is underrated both as a filmmaker and as a person.
He and his 1960s generation sang praises for the Viet Cong mass murderers and even tried to manipulate countless Americans into singing praises for those monsters by modeling the "heroes", the Rebel Alliance, after them. He's not a good man, quite the opposite, really. He's as evil as Hideo Kojima, especially after Peace Walker when he had Big Boss and Miller sing praises for Che Guevara and treated positively for it (and based on tweets by his secretary, he clearly liked Che). Heck, even said that the Soviet film industry was preferable to Hollywood, even though the Soviet film industry and "freedom of artistic expression" under the USSR can be best summed up with the opening scene from The Death of Stalin: ua-cam.com/video/uQnt9siVets/v-deo.html Namely, the fact that not even one of Stalin's favorite writers and his wife were spared from being sent to a Gulag at the very LEAST. Oh, and during his AMC interview with James Cameron, he not only reaffirmed his admission that the VC inspired the Rebel Alliance in Star Wars, but even implied that when he did so, he knew full well at the time that he was modelling them after a terrorist group.
@@IndyDefense Okay, first of all, if the US didn't belong in Vietnam, then China and the USSR didn't belong either, yet they obviously got a pass despite blatantly funding the Vietcong. Second of all, Ho Chi Minh was a puppet ruler for North Vietnam for the Communists, the USSR especially, he was never for Vietnam, he was for International Communist Revolution. If you support the Vietcong, you're Communist. Period. And Communists need to die.
Buckminster Fuller said something along the lines of "I'm not interested in Capitalism vs Communism. I'm interested in using science to create such abundance for humanity that these political structures will become obsolete." Which is, ironically, a very succinct description of Communism.
Not really. Considering communists constantly advocate a state of humanity that will never exist and do so with a delusional idea that the state would ever wither away on its own. Spoiler alert, it wouldn’t.
@@zcinelli4 and the prequels tell the story of how neo liberalism inevitably decays into fascism. George was great at subtly injecting leftist themes into his films. Would've loved to see what he would've done with the sequel trilogy rather than the corporate, ideologically blank, callback/cameo infested sequel trilogy we got from disney
Modern corporations are the true communists. They're just like the chinese communist party. They are funded by the FED and their value is unrelated to any profits they generate or not. And they promote an ideology that says you will own nothing and you will be happy.
@@thechuube8442 Yep, Lucas has always been based from the very beginning. THX 1138 is about consumerism and how it sterilises humanity. Also Lucas said that his ideas for the political aspect of sequels would've basically been no more Stormtroopers, the ones that survived the OT would've formed something similar to ISIS like what happened after the Iraq War and Leia would've transformed the New Republic into a socialist state.
Albert Einstein wrote: "I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion. A planned economy, which adjusts production to the needs of the community, would distribute the work to be done among all those able to work and would guarantee a livelihood to every man, woman, and child. The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow-men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society." (from his essay "Why Socialism?" - 1949)
Me too seriously. Humans today have been taught and raised to consume and want everything they can't afford like the psychopath politicians and elite families that have deceived and control this hypocritical, backwards, and insane society
I agree with you. Just like everyone else, George Lucas will make dumb comments from time to time (not that this was necessarily one of them.) I also think that people are missing the point of this video, (that people should be more compassionate.)
We're looking at the Leonardo Da Vinci or Aristotle of our time right now whose innovative ideas in art, science, and society will leave a permanent monument in the history of humanity.
Full, direct access to the means of survival is the best starting basis I have ever known of. What we currently have is forced, high-maintenance separation from the means of survival. Government and the wealthiest corporations they enact violence on behalf of are always intentionally seeking to make the separation greater, to force people to work for them as if their lives depend on it.
It’s purposefully vague but if you combine this with his quotes about how he ‘likes democracy but not capitalist democracy’ and ‘...it’s corrupt...you’re never going to get a real meeting of the minds one what is best’ it’s pretty obvious he’s a socialist. He believes democracy is about an aggregate of societies interests coming together to decide what best for society. He believes democracy, by this definition- as a means of achieving a society that maximise well being, is impossible in a capitalist systems due to the disproportionate power of the bourgeois. The system serves them rather than society. Socialism removes that influence and thus a ‘common sense’ discussion about what best for society can now take place, free of bourgeois influence.
He also implied in 2005 that his ideal society was Robsepierre's France, since he questioned why the people of France brought in Napoleon when they deposed of King Louis XVI.
@@mr.mintman7545 Ah, YEAH! Just look at the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, Lenin's terrorist state that was later expanded upon by Joseph Stalin, pretty much what happened every time Communism (which is no different from Socialism, in fact, the USSR's full name is the Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republics), and look at the Black Book of Communism.
@@ericotness6147 Look at what came after the Reign of Terror. The average life span in the USSR nearly doubled, it's industrial output quadrupled, and it went from being a minor agricultural power with a terrible military to rivalling the US hegemony. Lol. Socialism and Communism are completely different ideologies. You clearly don't understand what you're talking about. Socialism = common ownership of means of production Communism = society that is stateless, classless and moneyless wherein the means of production are commonly owned. The Big Black Book of Communism? Bwahahah. That book was discredited by its own authors, who said it was not academic, and the editor manipulated all of their figures to make it sensationalised. Truly reliable. Lol.
Some one should introduce him to the Venus Project and the concept of a resource based economy, an open access society. Way to go George. Run for presidency with the Money Free Party.
No, the Venus project is communism, is nothing similar to what George is saying. You depend on technology and enforcement to carry on a thing like that. George is talking about a spiritual aspect of society, like a psychologist would, a good one, a Jungian, that's more like Nietzsche or Joseph Campbell.
@GodZpeed X7 that's why I say venus is not communism. It has nothing to do with being anticapitalist or providing justice for workers or even class struggle. It deals to providing a better and more efficient use of resources. Capitalism is still a problem thought, because it's structure of defense of property is in the way of an efficient use of the available resources. And money too, since TVP considers the resources for their "life" value instead of the monetary value.
@@shinobicl The problem with the Venus project is that there is no incentive for any individual to take care of or maintain anything. The concept of "property" is just the concept of ownership. And if you think ownership is bad, you're fighting human nature. For example, we own our bodies. Nobody can tell us we must donate one of our eyes to a blind man so that he may see, because we OWN our bodies. And if we own our bodies, that means we also own what our bodies produce, and what we obtain through trading with others is also ours to have. The venus project completely eliminates individual incentive, its utopian and would only work for bumblebee's.
Why does everyone think George Lucas a 60’s Liberal is somehow socialist? “I grew up in the '60s. I grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I'm a very ardent patriot. But I'm also a very ardent believer in democracy, not capitalist democracy. And I do not believe that the rich should be able to buy the government. And that's just the way I feel."
@@kingorange7739 bro in another video he literally says that the soviet union offered his friends more freedom than corporate america did for him, and - oh yeah! The original trilogy is based on the Vietnam war. The empire are capitalists. The rebels are socialist. Man, I wonder what that's all about...
@@alondvorkin2762 George refers to artists, but that was something he ended up being dead wrong about and was not hesitant to later critique Soviets in other areas especially given freedom of speech was not a thing there. And yes, the OT is based on Vietnam in part because he was against America acting as an Imperialist state. I am sure if you talked to George about the Soviet invasion of afganistan he would have the same stance. He labelled himself a liberal first and foremost.
We live in a developed world where science has made life easier, and machines can make stuff cheaper. We humans have WON. If only expenses such as rent and college and health care were low, then life would be great and we would be able to pursue our dreams.
@@nesbistrampol Capitalism is a pyramid scheme. Nothing less, nothing more. A parasite on society! As soon as we understand it for what it is, we will get rid of it and replace it with common sense. and if someone says they don't care about society and just want to be concerned with his own self we will call him what the ANCIENT GREEK called those like him IDI OPTIC (idi = one self) (optic = to see) IDIOPTICS today IDI OTIC.
George Lucas was literally a socialist and made movies critiquing societies built around imperialism, militarism, and facism ... yet it flew over more than half of Star War's fans heads lmao
George Lucas was a Liberal politically if you actually do the research but this video doesn’t even confirm any political side in George’s mind. It just discusses his ideas of a perfect society. A compassionate society where everyone cares about others. He seems to be speaking in general about people literally helping others, not an actual political side. I don’t know where you get this idea that George is a socialist. The man never says anything pro socialist the best you can theorize is him criticizing marketing in Hollywood but that’s still a huge if. He just doesn’t like the rich being able to effect Government. He doesn’t say they’re shouldn’t be any rich people around but he does criticize greed. So he’s a Liberal that wants the wealthy separate from Government. Seems like your just taking a huge leap here. George classified himself as an ardent patriot meaning he’s intensely devoted American freedom.
@@bendu8282 He's not a socialist, he's just: *describes everything that makes him one* Socialism isn't "when there's no rich people" it's making work more democratic Also, the liberal democratic party also gets lobbied up, so...
@@kingorange7739 Do the USSR and China live in your head, rent free? You think socialism only has one version and that it can't evolve. You only care about socialist countries did wrong (the extent of which is highly debatable) not how the countries that struggle far less do a million more things wrong (like making sure certain other countries struggle)
@@alondvorkin2762 Which is what I specifically asked you what you think could and would be done differently to avoid those mistakes? Also this isn't to say socialism itself can't evolve, but socialists themselves aren't. You spout the same arguments that socialists within the 20th century were also saying and never once did you look at how the socialist system can do better. You can't improve anything if you are unwilling to acknowledge the flaws and wrongdoings. With one exception, you haven't. So I will ask again, what do you honestly think can be done to prevent socialism from falling into authoritarianism and tyranny while still acomplishing its economic goals.
We're looking at the Leonardo Da Vinci or Aristotle of our time right now whose ideas in art and society will leave a permanent monument in the history of humanity.
There was a fair amount of mutual co-operation in Native American societies. I don't mean to put them on a pedastal (some groups were peaceful, some fought), but humans have already done a lot better in terms of happiness and justice than what we now have. European settlers on both coasts commented on how happy and healthy the indigenous people were.
An image is more valuable than a thousand words... Just look at those two men... Now look for the differences... Let's start with their spacial position: It's not casual George has been sat at the left side of the table, which is a clear boundary between the two men ... Then, go beyond this: Left against right; communism against capitalism; good against evil; passive against aggressive; rich man against poor man; owner against worker; looser against winner... and so on... At the end, there's only a message that remains more than any word that they say, the one given by the image: confrontation, division... And that's just what this video generates inside its audience. 👁CBS
The "WINNER take all" mentality worked great for raw undeveloped lands/countries such as America 100 years ago when things needed to get done, but now we have a peaked developed society where egalitarianism is needed to maintain stability.
I always had a feeling george lucas was kinda socialist, and while he doesnt seem to know a lot of Marxist theory you can tell hes someone who would be socialist if they were politically focused from time to time. I dont know why seeing George lucas as a socialist makes me so happy.
He's always been a proto-Michael Moore since the Original Trilogy, he's just being more overt about it now. For goodness sakes, he modeled the Rebels and Ewoks after the Vietcong while implying he knew full well they were a terrorist group, and specifically modeled Palpatine after Richard Nixon.
@@victormanuel369 Not really. "What good is all your uncle's work if its taken over by the Empire?... You know they re starting to nationalize commerce in the central systems.. it won't be long before your uncle is merely a tenant, slaving for the greater glory of the Empire."
Star Wars isn’t political. It has some general political themes to it but Star Wars is much deeper. It’s about morality, fantasy, adventure, philosophy, growth, and most importantly selflessness over selfishness. It’s also a space opera about family. If you really want to know what Star Wars is listen to one of George’s mentors ,Joseph Campbell. "Star Wars deals with the essential problem: Is the machine going to control humanity, or is the machine going to serve humanity? Darth Vader is a man taken over by a machine, he becomes a machine, and the state itself is a machine. There is no humanity in the state. What runs the world is economics and politics, and they have nothing to do with the spiritual life." - Joseph Campbel From "PW Interviews Joseph Campbell, by Chris Goodrich" Publisher's Weekly (August 23, 1985, p.74-75)
Yeah, but he didn't explain how he plans to do that. By giving money from the rich and not-so-rich to the poor and then keeping them unmotivated and poor, or by teaching them about economy, financials, free markets, work and capitalism? I guess the second option since he's one of the richest men alive...
@@shizuwolf Every person is a different world, so there are just so many motivations, but... If you punish productive people by stealing their money or assets and you give some of it to less productive people... Yeah, won't do any good at all. Just look at Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba, Brazil, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Russia... Recent history (as in the last century, if not more) is full of very good examples. Also Spain-we are unfortunately going by the same path... Believe me, it's not enjoyable at all. Like I said, you motivate people by teaching them good and objective and useful things and then letting them develop their dreams, projects and abilities. Not keeping them ignorant and then also banning them from doing almost anything. Best regards.
@@shizuwolf There you have it. You're just proving you're just another ignorant without a doubt. You lack any knowledge about economics, politics, history, philosophy or just about anything on these matters. Stop wasting your time, and mine, and just STUDY UP STARTING RIGHT NOW!
I respect Lucas and I love to hear his opinion about many subjects but in this case he talks in a way that's too abstract and naive. He seems to describe some form of socialism but calls it "common sense" instead, whatever that means. Every ideology, even the most radical ones, seek "the best possible good" as they understand it but that's not enough. In politics its not that important what you seek but how you seek it.
"Every ideology, even the most radical ones, seek "the best possible good" as they understand it but that's not enough." Well, not every ideology. The Marquis de Sade if anything desired the worst possible evil, as can be covered in Operation Parricide. Marx also was much of the same, even up and out rejecting moral codes to such an extent that he ordered anyone who even DARED try to use morals for socialism to be expelled from his party. And Lenin, aside from explicitly stating that the best revolutionary is youth devoid of morals, outright stated that they needed to get rid of any law and order whatsoever and make it as lawless and horrific as possible, rivaling even Palpatine in sheer depravity (don't believe me? Look up Leninthink by Gary Saul Morson).
A free society will always produce hierarchies and unequal outcomes. It's philosophy or civics 101. The same way not everyone can be as athletic as Michael Jordan, not everyone is as intelligent and articulate as a Christopher Hitchens or Jordan Peterson type character. We're all equal in our rights (ideally) but not equal in competence. If an American say craves wealth but lacks a good IQ or discipline, ambition etc. his best bet is to move to a poorer nation. People conveniently forget to realize making $35,000 USD puts you in the 1% globally...
Actually, he's very much the man he was before. He's a socially conscious member of the 1960s generation who has retained his ideals and optimism who, like all great artists, hopes to spread to others through his art (THX 1138, Young Indy TV series, Star Wars prequels, Red Tails, etc.). He is a very good man, who is underrated both as a filmmaker and as a person.
He and his 1960s generation sang praises for the Viet Cong mass murderers and even tried to manipulate countless Americans into singing praises for those monsters by modeling the "heroes", the Rebel Alliance, after them. He's not a good man, quite the opposite, really. He's as evil as Hideo Kojima, especially after Peace Walker when he had Big Boss and Miller sing praises for Che Guevara and treated positively for it (and based on tweets by his secretary, he clearly liked Che). Heck, even said that the Soviet film industry was preferable to Hollywood, even though the Soviet film industry and "freedom of artistic expression" under the USSR can be best summed up with the opening scene from The Death of Stalin: ua-cam.com/video/uQnt9siVets/v-deo.html Namely, the fact that not even one of Stalin's favorite writers and his wife were spared from being sent to a Gulag at the very LEAST. Oh, and during his AMC interview with James Cameron, he not only reaffirmed his admission that the VC inspired the Rebel Alliance in Star Wars, but even implied that when he did so, he knew full well at the time that he was modelling them after a terrorist group.
@@ericotness6147 The US didn't belong in Vietnam. It was their country to have whatever government they wanted.
@@IndyDefense Okay, first of all, if the US didn't belong in Vietnam, then China and the USSR didn't belong either, yet they obviously got a pass despite blatantly funding the Vietcong. Second of all, Ho Chi Minh was a puppet ruler for North Vietnam for the Communists, the USSR especially, he was never for Vietnam, he was for International Communist Revolution. If you support the Vietcong, you're Communist. Period. And Communists need to die.
@@ericotness6147 worst take ever.
Take the L.
Brainwashed much?
@@Albtraum_TDDC Nope. If anything, you're brainwashed by the public school system.
Buckminster Fuller said something along the lines of "I'm not interested in Capitalism vs Communism. I'm interested in using science to create such abundance for humanity that these political structures will become obsolete."
Which is, ironically, a very succinct description of Communism.
Not really. Considering communists constantly advocate a state of humanity that will never exist and do so with a delusional idea that the state would ever wither away on its own. Spoiler alert, it wouldn’t.
The problem is that we pretty much have the abundance right now. It’s just not getting shared equally. Can’t happen without a rebellion.
Fully-automated luxury communism!
Comrade George Lucas
Star Wars is literally a retelling of our comrades in Vietnam victory over the American empire which is based af
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@@zcinelli4 and the prequels tell the story of how neo liberalism inevitably decays into fascism. George was great at subtly injecting leftist themes into his films. Would've loved to see what he would've done with the sequel trilogy rather than the corporate, ideologically blank, callback/cameo infested sequel trilogy we got from disney
Modern corporations are the true communists. They're just like the chinese communist party. They are funded by the FED and their value is unrelated to any profits they generate or not. And they promote an ideology that says you will own nothing and you will be happy.
@@thechuube8442 Yep, Lucas has always been based from the very beginning. THX 1138 is about consumerism and how it sterilises humanity. Also Lucas said that his ideas for the political aspect of sequels would've basically been no more Stormtroopers, the ones that survived the OT would've formed something similar to ISIS like what happened after the Iraq War and Leia would've transformed the New Republic into a socialist state.
Albert Einstein wrote:
"I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion. A planned economy, which adjusts production to the needs of the community, would distribute the work to be done among all those able to work and would guarantee a livelihood to every man, woman, and child. The education of the individual, in addition to promoting his own innate abilities, would attempt to develop in him a sense of responsibility for his fellow-men in place of the glorification of power and success in our present society." (from his essay "Why Socialism?" - 1949)
@Soy Allergies are you racist?
@Soy Allergies So are Jews socialists or the capitalist economic elite? Make up your mind
I'm really getting tired of people picking on George Lucas for every little thing he says. This mob mentality is disgusting.
Me too seriously. Humans today have been taught and raised to consume and want everything they can't afford like the psychopath politicians and elite families that have deceived and control this hypocritical, backwards, and insane society
I agree with you. Just like everyone else, George Lucas will make dumb comments from time to time (not that this was necessarily one of them.) I also think that people are missing the point of this video, (that people should be more compassionate.)
I really want to meet George Lucas! I have so many similar views to him and I always felt like people didn’t get me.
0:27 - 0:33
It never leaves my mind.
Common sense
We're looking at the Leonardo Da Vinci or Aristotle of our time right now whose innovative ideas in art, science, and society will leave a permanent monument in the history of humanity.
Full, direct access to the means of survival is the best starting basis I have ever known of. What we currently have is forced, high-maintenance separation from the means of survival. Government and the wealthiest corporations they enact violence on behalf of are always intentionally seeking to make the separation greater, to force people to work for them as if their lives depend on it.
It’s purposefully vague but if you combine this with his quotes about how he ‘likes democracy but not capitalist democracy’ and ‘...it’s corrupt...you’re never going to get a real meeting of the minds one what is best’ it’s pretty obvious he’s a socialist. He believes democracy is about an aggregate of societies interests coming together to decide what best for society. He believes democracy, by this definition- as a means of achieving a society that maximise well being, is impossible in a capitalist systems due to the disproportionate power of the bourgeois. The system serves them rather than society. Socialism removes that influence and thus a ‘common sense’ discussion about what best for society can now take place, free of bourgeois influence.
Is there anything bad about socialism...?
@@mr.mintman7545 of course, no system is perfect. Still better though
He also implied in 2005 that his ideal society was Robsepierre's France, since he questioned why the people of France brought in Napoleon when they deposed of King Louis XVI.
@@mr.mintman7545 Ah, YEAH! Just look at the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, Lenin's terrorist state that was later expanded upon by Joseph Stalin, pretty much what happened every time Communism (which is no different from Socialism, in fact, the USSR's full name is the Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republics), and look at the Black Book of Communism.
@@ericotness6147 Look at what came after the Reign of Terror. The average life span in the USSR nearly doubled, it's industrial output quadrupled, and it went from being a minor agricultural power with a terrible military to rivalling the US hegemony. Lol.
Socialism and Communism are completely different ideologies. You clearly don't understand what you're talking about.
Socialism = common ownership of means of production
Communism = society that is stateless, classless and moneyless wherein the means of production are commonly owned.
The Big Black Book of Communism? Bwahahah. That book was discredited by its own authors, who said it was not academic, and the editor manipulated all of their figures to make it sensationalised. Truly reliable. Lol.
GEORGE LUCAS IS CORRECT..........PEOPLE SHOULD BE ABLE TO HAVE A GREATER LIFE.......THERE IS TO MUCH GREED IN AMERICA......
Are you not wearing corporate logos on your cap & shirt?
Some one should introduce him to the Venus Project and the concept of a resource based economy, an open access society.
Way to go George. Run for presidency with the Money Free Party.
No, the Venus project is communism, is nothing similar to what George is saying. You depend on technology and enforcement to carry on a thing like that. George is talking about a spiritual aspect of society, like a psychologist would, a good one, a Jungian, that's more like Nietzsche or Joseph Campbell.
@@dimebagforever251 so, taking care of everyone using the scientific method to develop the best way to build things is communism, hmmmm
@GodZpeed X7 that's why I say venus is not communism. It has nothing to do with being anticapitalist or providing justice for workers or even class struggle. It deals to providing a better and more efficient use of resources.
Capitalism is still a problem thought, because it's structure of defense of property is in the way of an efficient use of the available resources. And money too, since TVP considers the resources for their "life" value instead of the monetary value.
@GodZpeed X7 Do you even know what Communism is? Please, give me the definition and explain to me what's wrong about it.
@@shinobicl The problem with the Venus project is that there is no incentive for any individual to take care of or maintain anything. The concept of "property" is just the concept of ownership. And if you think ownership is bad, you're fighting human nature. For example, we own our bodies. Nobody can tell us we must donate one of our eyes to a blind man so that he may see, because we OWN our bodies. And if we own our bodies, that means we also own what our bodies produce, and what we obtain through trading with others is also ours to have. The venus project completely eliminates individual incentive, its utopian and would only work for bumblebee's.
Common Senseism, or just Commonism for short ;)
Um no.
I concur with comrade Lucas, transitioning to socialism and then to communism it the way forward into a more just society.
Why does everyone think George Lucas a 60’s Liberal is somehow socialist? “I grew up in the '60s. I grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I'm a very ardent patriot. But I'm also a very ardent believer in democracy, not capitalist democracy. And I do not believe that the rich should be able to buy the government. And that's just the way I feel."
@@bendu8282 That quote literally answered your question... or was that a theoretical question?
@@alondvorkin2762 Being against unchecked capitalism does not make one a socialist.
@@kingorange7739 bro in another video he literally says that the soviet union offered his friends more freedom than corporate america did for him, and - oh yeah! The original trilogy is based on the Vietnam war. The empire are capitalists. The rebels are socialist. Man, I wonder what that's all about...
@@alondvorkin2762 George refers to artists, but that was something he ended up being dead wrong about and was not hesitant to later critique Soviets in other areas especially given freedom of speech was not a thing there.
And yes, the OT is based on Vietnam in part because he was against America acting as an Imperialist state. I am sure if you talked to George about the Soviet invasion of afganistan he would have the same stance. He labelled himself a liberal first and foremost.
George you are so right.
We live in a developed world where science has made life easier, and machines can make stuff cheaper. We humans have WON. If only expenses such as rent and college and health care were low, then life would be great and we would be able to pursue our dreams.
I take it you've never been stopped and searched by the police.
we need to abolish Capitalism
@@nesbistrampol Capitalism is a pyramid scheme. Nothing less, nothing more. A parasite on society!
As soon as we understand it for what it is, we will get rid of it and replace it with common sense.
and if someone says they don't care about society and just want to be concerned with his own self we will call him what the ANCIENT GREEK called those like him IDI OPTIC (idi = one self) (optic = to see)
IDIOPTICS today IDI OTIC.
Just liberalize them and the prices will come down as much as possible. Easy.
@@Octovisuals NO. Liberalizing it will cause monopollies and prices will be unaffordable to 40% of the lower income population.
George Lucas was literally a socialist and made movies critiquing societies built around imperialism, militarism, and facism ... yet it flew over more than half of Star War's fans heads lmao
George Lucas was a Liberal politically if you actually do the research but this video doesn’t even confirm any political side in George’s mind. It just discusses his ideas of a perfect society. A compassionate society where everyone cares about others. He seems to be speaking in general about people literally helping others, not an actual political side.
I don’t know where you get this idea that George is a socialist. The man never says anything pro socialist the best you can theorize is him criticizing marketing in Hollywood but that’s still a huge if. He just doesn’t like the rich being able to effect Government. He doesn’t say they’re shouldn’t be any rich people around but he does criticize greed. So he’s a Liberal that wants the wealthy separate from Government. Seems like your just taking a huge leap here. George classified himself as an ardent patriot meaning he’s intensely devoted American freedom.
@@bendu8282 He's not a socialist, he's just: *describes everything that makes him one*
Socialism isn't "when there's no rich people" it's making work more democratic
Also, the liberal democratic party also gets lobbied up, so...
@@alondvorkin2762actually it isn’t. I don’t know where you thing the work place was any more democratic in the Soviet Union or China.
@@kingorange7739 Do the USSR and China live in your head, rent free? You think socialism only has one version and that it can't evolve. You only care about socialist countries did wrong (the extent of which is highly debatable) not how the countries that struggle far less do a million more things wrong (like making sure certain other countries struggle)
@@alondvorkin2762 Which is what I specifically asked you what you think could and would be done differently to avoid those mistakes? Also this isn't to say socialism itself can't evolve, but socialists themselves aren't. You spout the same arguments that socialists within the 20th century were also saying and never once did you look at how the socialist system can do better. You can't improve anything if you are unwilling to acknowledge the flaws and wrongdoings. With one exception, you haven't. So I will ask again, what do you honestly think can be done to prevent socialism from falling into authoritarianism and tyranny while still acomplishing its economic goals.
In an ideal society he would still be in charge of Star Wars but that isn't the reality. Oh well, at least the dream lasted for 35 years.
22 years imo.
Oh man I want to see his sequel trilogy so badly.
@@moist_captain me too :,(
"common sense" ❤
I'll take the political philosophy "I have no idea what's best for others, so I won't hit them and take their stuff."
So you are anti Capitalism, Property and the Police?
We're looking at the Leonardo Da Vinci or Aristotle of our time right now whose ideas in art and society will leave a permanent monument in the history of humanity.
... call it "contributionism" (Ubuntu Party)
@TheChertron I miss his old show though.
WE NEED JEDI ORDER
I'd use a stock-based system Much better for the economy.
There was a fair amount of mutual co-operation in Native American societies. I don't mean to put them on a pedastal (some groups were peaceful, some fought), but humans have already done a lot better in terms of happiness and justice than what we now have. European settlers on both coasts commented on how happy and healthy the indigenous people were.
An image is more valuable than a thousand words... Just look at those two men... Now look for the differences... Let's start with their spacial position: It's not casual George has been sat at the left side of the table, which is a clear boundary between the two men ... Then, go beyond this: Left against right; communism against capitalism; good against evil; passive against aggressive; rich man against poor man; owner against worker; looser against winner... and so on... At the end, there's only a message that remains more than any word that they say, the one given by the image: confrontation, division... And that's just what this video generates inside its audience.
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Imo, billionaire Lucas looks much warmer and friendlier than the suit, but alas sounds whiney and impractical.
Who decides what is "best"?
Oh, Mr. Lucas...
The "WINNER take all" mentality worked great for raw undeveloped lands/countries such as America 100 years ago when things needed to get done, but now we have a peaked developed society where egalitarianism is needed to maintain stability.
they had black people to get things done
People who call him a socialist or communist because of his views are missing the point he's making entirely
I always had a feeling george lucas was kinda socialist, and while he doesnt seem to know a lot of Marxist theory you can tell hes someone who would be socialist if they were politically focused from time to time.
I dont know why seeing George lucas as a socialist makes me so happy.
@coyotefever105 What does that mean??
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Pretty sure it's even worse than caveman societies, already then people were more compassionate and conscious than now.
BRILLIANT and he is RIGHT!!
Okay, start by donating 80% of your fortune to charities or the State.
Someday Earth will be like this. But we are still in the caves.
He didn’t really say anything. All he said was pretty much “I want the best system, whatever that is”
When did George Lucas become Michael Moore?
PrivateAckbar Always. Watch his Star Wars movies looking beyond the surface (Padme, Windu, Obiwan, Leia...).
Perhaps when the turncoat endorsed Obama.
He's always been a proto-Michael Moore since the Original Trilogy, he's just being more overt about it now. For goodness sakes, he modeled the Rebels and Ewoks after the Vietcong while implying he knew full well they were a terrorist group, and specifically modeled Palpatine after Richard Nixon.
@@victormanuel369 Not really.
"What good is all your uncle's work if its taken
over by the Empire?... You know they re starting to nationalize commerce in the central systems.. it won't be long before your uncle is merely a tenant, slaving for the greater glory of the Empire."
@CinematicMaj I just disagree with him.
kinda based
I am interested in how George Lucas is gonna pull off that one.
I would love to ask Lucas if he personally finds it necessary for anyone to own billions like himself
Star Wars isn’t political. It has some general political themes to it but Star Wars is much deeper. It’s about morality, fantasy, adventure, philosophy, growth, and most importantly selflessness over selfishness. It’s also a space opera about family. If you really want to know what Star Wars is listen to one of George’s mentors ,Joseph Campbell.
"Star Wars deals with the essential
problem: Is the machine going to
control humanity, or is the machine
going to serve humanity? Darth Vader
is a man taken over by a machine, he
becomes a machine, and the state
itself is a machine. There is no
humanity in the state. What runs the
world is economics and politics, and
they have nothing to do with
the spiritual life."
- Joseph Campbel
From "PW Interviews Joseph Campbell, by Chris Goodrich" Publisher's Weekly (August 23, 1985, p.74-75)
157 peeps only liked this. That's so laughable.
Hopele$$ people, you just wait
Anyone who disagrees with George Lucas is ignorant I'll follow this man blindly if he was into politics.
only the ruthless deserve to rule this world.
Creating the "best" society is Progressivism. I'd rather live under a society free from the state.
common sense, communism…
Yeah, but he didn't explain how he plans to do that. By giving money from the rich and not-so-rich to the poor and then keeping them unmotivated and poor, or by teaching them about economy, financials, free markets, work and capitalism? I guess the second option since he's one of the richest men alive...
What do you think motivates people?
@@shizuwolf Every person is a different world, so there are just so many motivations, but... If you punish productive people by stealing their money or assets and you give some of it to less productive people... Yeah, won't do any good at all.
Just look at Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba, Brazil, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Russia... Recent history (as in the last century, if not more) is full of very good examples. Also Spain-we are unfortunately going by the same path... Believe me, it's not enjoyable at all.
Like I said, you motivate people by teaching them good and objective and useful things and then letting them develop their dreams, projects and abilities. Not keeping them ignorant and then also banning them from doing almost anything.
Best regards.
@@Octovisuals pretty sure those places failed because of sanctions and other outside influences
@@shizuwolf There you have it. You're just proving you're just another ignorant without a doubt.
You lack any knowledge about economics, politics, history, philosophy or just about anything on these matters.
Stop wasting your time, and mine, and just STUDY UP STARTING RIGHT NOW!
@@Octovisuals whatever, Habsburg
I respect Lucas and I love to hear his opinion about many subjects but in this case he talks in a way that's too abstract and naive. He seems to describe some form of socialism but calls it "common sense" instead, whatever that means. Every ideology, even the most radical ones, seek "the best possible good" as they understand it but that's not enough. In politics its not that important what you seek but how you seek it.
"Every ideology, even the most radical ones, seek "the best possible good" as they understand it but that's not enough." Well, not every ideology. The Marquis de Sade if anything desired the worst possible evil, as can be covered in Operation Parricide. Marx also was much of the same, even up and out rejecting moral codes to such an extent that he ordered anyone who even DARED try to use morals for socialism to be expelled from his party. And Lenin, aside from explicitly stating that the best revolutionary is youth devoid of morals, outright stated that they needed to get rid of any law and order whatsoever and make it as lawless and horrific as possible, rivaling even Palpatine in sheer depravity (don't believe me? Look up Leninthink by Gary Saul Morson).
A free society will always produce hierarchies and unequal outcomes. It's philosophy or civics 101. The same way not everyone can be as athletic as Michael Jordan, not everyone is as intelligent and articulate as a Christopher Hitchens or Jordan Peterson type character. We're all equal in our rights (ideally) but not equal in competence. If an American say craves wealth but lacks a good IQ or discipline, ambition etc. his best bet is to move to a poorer nation. People conveniently forget to realize making $35,000 USD puts you in the 1% globally...
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I'd call it marxism. and it sounds great to me because I'd quit my job and vacation yr round with mr. Lucas' money.
If you don't do your fair share of work you won't get your fair share of the pie.