Living a virtual political life

Sometimes, people make just wonderful connections.  Patrick, the Paragraph Farmer, made such a connection the other day, when he sewed together, on the one hand, events at George Lucas's special effects factory and, on the other hand, a culture of disbelief (and make believe) in the modern political world.  Read what he wrote, and then come back and tell me whether it doesn't affect how you view the American political scene.