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To be a historian is, at times, to be cursed. Perpetually watching patterns or seeing similarities and worrying about whether whatever comes next will resemble the past behind us.
But there were also those who stayed behind. Those who enjoyed the Imperial way of life. Who were happy to sacrifice some seemingly theoretical liberties if it meant they could live in comfort and security.
Too often we have heard that when it came to the Empire those humans living in the Core Worlds traded their rights for what appeared to be a peaceful and secure state. This is incorrect. They traded the rights of others for it.
The broadcast from Exegol revealing that Palpatine had returned is interesting for various reasons.
not the least of which was that it was on FORTNITE
There is much hope that can be found in the realization that resistance and rebellion will always rise to meet totalitarianism. But how many times do we want to repeat this process? How often do we wish to relax, complacently, upon our victories and ignore the dark slivers of Imperial ideology that lurk within the shadows, just biding their time. How do we make this time the last time?
It is the way that ideology offers something to ordinary people. The promises it makes to them and the awful things it gives them permission to do. That is the Empire.
We need to say “never again” and then, crucially, we need to mean it. We cannot turn our eyes away nor sleepwalk into destruction as those before us did. We must see, we must learn, and we must remember.
