“May the Force be with you.”
In honor of Star Wars day, I simply couldn’t resist. I know this isn’t a real historical quote (or IS it…maybe in a galaxy far far away, a long time ago??), but on the other hand, it IS A REAL historical quote. The actor Alec Guinness really did say this line. George Lucas really did write them in a script. And, believe it or not, the phrase became a very important philosophical idea in the late 1970s, helping the country move out of its malaise. Star Wars helped the country, immediately after our bicentennial, that we weren’t celebrating the birthday of a dying old thing, but rather could cast our eyes toward the stars. We could confidently walk towards the future even if an Evil Empire with a dark shadowy Emperor was opposing us. We simply had to believe.