Comment on In Star Wars, what would it mean "to bring balance to The Force?"

ToiletFlushShowerScream@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Light side = balance

  Dark side = imbalance

  Sith = dark side. Must get rid of Sith for balance.

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  • queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think that is precisely the misreading that led to the downfall of the Jedi order. The dark side of the force isn’t inherently evil, just as the light side isn’t inherently good. The Jedi did a lot of shitty stuff under the banner of being the good guys. Balance, I think, is having all aspects of the Force (that is, all living things) in harmony.

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    • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The misreading of the Jedi was

      Jedi = light side

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      • queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        What is the “light side” of the Force if not Jedi propaganda establishing themselves as the only morally correct force users in the galaxy? Who is to say which parts of the force are good and which are evil? The failing of the Jedi isn’t that they assumed they were completely on the right side, but that the force has “sides” at all. The dark side exists in all living things, because the Force exists in all living things. To deny a part of the Force is imbalance.

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    • cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That was a Jedi problem, not a light side problem.

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      • queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I replied to Björn’s comment first with more detail, but I fail to see the difference. The “light side” of the force is just branding the Jedi used to claim moral authority for their own rules about who can use the Force and how.

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