What a tool...

you know you're a total tool when you spend 3 hours...yes hours... engrossed in history channel shows about star wars.

The first two hours was a show about the legends that star wars was based on. Of course most everyone (at least everyone who took rolland's rhet crit class) knows about the hero's journey, and that it was the basis for the star wars movies. but i did learn a few other interesting things:

-When Vader cuts off luke's hand, it was meant to symbolize the "mark of cain" (the mark God put on Cain after he murdered Abel) because it was a mark of the sins of the father, that were passed to the son. (in the case of star wars, Anakin's arrogant belief that he could face a sith lord as a mere padawan.)

-The word "mentor" comes from the oddessy, and was the name of the loyal servant to oddyseus who watched over and taught oddyseus' son while oddyseus was away.

-leia and padme represent "the feminine," which is the same thing that the davinci code talks about mary magdelene representing.

The last hour was a show about the technology of star wars, and what is actually feasible today. Most of it I watched and said "well, no shit...it's a fucking MOVIE. Of course it's not real." However:

-The suit that keeps vader alive is not only plausible, but is only a few years away from being common place.

-the ion engines that power the spaceships in starwars when they AREN'T at lightspeed are real...NASA uses them for deep space, unmanned probes. (Faster than light travel is still alas, only a dream.)

-Lightsabers are possible. thats right...FUCKING LIGHTSABERS ARE FUCKING POSSIBLE....They would actually be made of plasma, which is the fourth state of matter...yes, there's a 4th state of matter, not just liquid solid and gas like they told us in school, i'll explain it later if you'd like...at this point to make something like a lightsaber would take a warehouse full of equipment to run, as opposed to something that fits in your hand, but then again, the blackberry in my pocket has more computing power than the computers that it took a warehouse to house 60 years ago.

anyways, just in case any of you were unclear on just how dorky I am, this should settle it for you.