This piece is in many ways the inverse of my piece on Deadpool as the perfect postmodern movie. Star Wars did (most) everything wrong that Deadpool did right when dealing with our contemporary postmodern zeitgeist. Whereas Deadpool wasa postmodern triumph, the new Star Wars trilogy is a postmodern disaster. This…
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“I don’t care for these new Nazis and you can quote me on that.” —John MulaneyIn 1989 Francis Fukuyama wrote the seminal essay, “The End of History?” That essay would form the basis of his massively influential 1992 book The End of History and The Last Man. The book…