Is it all just good clean fun? I'm afraid that after years of digging into ever more bizarre permutations of what I call “war culture” in the United States, this cultural moment was more than I could resist. 2 From Pinterest to video gaming and blogs of every sort, from video tributes, toys, plastic gadgets of all kinds, to yes, even the way people decide to decorate their new infants' nurseries, we've sort of gone gaga, at least temporarily. 1 It is estimated that the merchandising bonanza from the film will result in over $5 billion in the first year alone after the film's release. In just two weeks the film broke all national records for ticket sales, grossing over $750 million. Of course, it wasn't hard to guess that the nation would go nuts with the release of the latest film in the Star Wars franchise. Nevertheless, I still was surprised, as a veritable tsunami of merchandising ads for Star Wars: The Force Awakens washed this image onto my screen: “Star Wars Baby Nursery Design.” So this is the latest way to welcome the new baby into the family, with a room painted black, an enormous commercial logo on the wall behind an innocent crib, a Darth Vader lamp and Chewbacca rug to complete the ensemble?
I should have known, by early December, when photographs of infants with knitted Yoda caps on their heads began to flash across my computer screen at odd moments, that it was all downhill from there.
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