Comment on In Star Wars, what would it mean "to bring balance to The Force?"
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks agoI 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.
cattywampas@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.”