ABSTRACT
Tarzan is hardly the only fictional hero placed in needless jeopardy by the feelings culture, Hollywood division. It happens to Jedi knights, too, in one Star Wars picture after another. Nine-year-old Anakin Skywalker is about to risk his life in a 300-mile-per-hour race of pods, or space chariots. So the Jedi knight naturally thinks this is a good time to offer the child useful advice about feelings. Galaxy scholars found that thinking, on the other hand, fell into disrepute. It was an abstract, culture-bound, Western activity. Undemocratic, too, since it privileged people who could do it over people who couldn't. In contrast, anyone can produce feelings, and because they all are personal and self-created, they can't be challenged, like old-fashioned arguments used to be. A small remnant of pro-thinking students was left alone so that someone would produce the great Death Stars that could be blown up, and the computerized bombsights that could be turned off.
