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Originally Posted by Ohio
Can we come back on message, please?
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Actually Star Wars is relevant. I once noted on this forum that the evil trade federation (aka Walt Disney) sold us a story about the evil trade federation, and they made a mint off it! Brilliant!
Just market the idealised "rebels" who are really trade federation puppets - system pawns; movie actors who spout your cliches. And the gullible masses will line up, and come in by the droves.
"Star Wars" the movie franchise is actually owned by the bad guy, the Trade Federation, aka Walt Disney & Hollywood. Not too much of a stretch to see that.
Likewise, the "genuine local churches" are just franchised ministry outposts of a self-proclaimed prophet and apostle, who happened to - surprise, surprise - own the publishing company that put out all his books, all 326 of them! And coffee mugs, and CDs, and DVDs, and socks, and calendars and t-shirts and posters and whatever else they could market. There's gold in them thar hills!
That was the revelation: that if you tell the gullible masses that you have the revelation, enough of them will believe you, that you can make a living off it. Pretty good gig if you can get it.
I think they called that one, The Empire Strikes Back.