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

• 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.

  source

  • cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think you’re still looking at the Force like it’s a traditional dualistic phenomenon like we’re used to in real-world philosophy, like yin and yang, there can be no light without darkness, etc. But the sides of the Force don’t work that way despite their “light” and “dark” descriptors. The light side is the natural and balanced state. The dark side is an aberration.

    source

    • queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I think about it in neither way. My point is that the descriptors of “light” and “dark” are our own (or the Jedis’ own) moralizations mapped crudely onto the nature of the universe. The Jedi describing themselves as “light” and others as “dark” is a recursive definition of morality and it leads to moral rot, because people start to believe that the rules handed down by the Jedi are actually morally perfect, and above question. It is definitionally authoritarian.

      source

      • cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        But isn’t that the point? The Jedi’s hubris was a large part of their downfall and the old Order needed to be done away with.

        “You’re not the last of the old Jedi, Luke. You’re the first of the new.”

        source