The Pop Cult is not new. It's been around since your parents were young. Even at the time of the late 1970s, it was an issue that the wise took issue with.
The image here is a quote by the late Sir Alec Guinness, reflecting on the Special Edition release of the original trilogy of George Lucas' space opera series. Time proved his concern correct, and now we have a work of popular fiction being treated as a psuedo-religious cult with the media itself as the object of cult worship.
Now the Death Cult, seeing the vulnerability that adherants to this Pop Cult have between their ears, move in to destroy the idol of worship in the aims of driving the cultists from their idols and into their arms by offering their own cult doctrine as a substitute for the very idols they destroyed.
We should have listened to Sir Alec and others like him.
We did not, and now we suffer the consequences of our folly.
We could have prevented this. Now we have to clean up this mess and pass on this lesson to our successors.
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