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I was so green in the world that I hadn’t accepted there could be parables without a moral, questions without an answer.

It is the seat of Hood County, where rodeos and “cowboy tourism” are popular and preachers conflate Bible parables and politics.

But Martin’s stories, along with being informed by actual history, are parables of power struggles among the ruling classes.

The first and second seasons are light parables that take on toxic masculinity, the weight of fatherhood and healing traumatic personal legacies.

“A New Hope,” “ The Empire Strikes Back” and “Jedi” collectively became a kind of morality North Star for Gen X, augmented by Joseph Campbell’s authentication of the films as spiritual parables.