Tbf there’s been a few confirmations of just how bad the alternative can get
Nevermind situations like the night sisters or sith, a force sensitive child who has no guidance as their powers manifest is about as destructive potentially as an unsanctioned psyker can be in 40k, just via being a planet shaker instead of becoming a living portal via which demons rip their way into reality to burninate the countryside.
There is no kidnapping, parents can refuse and the students can leave.
The thing is… Why would you say no to the Jedi?
The Good Guys of the Galaxy come in and say, “Hey, we’d like to guarantee your child a future of being one of the most important people in the galaxy, with all their needs met as we turn them into space wizards who fight evil.”
They won’t even kidnap a fuckin enslaved Chosen One, Space Jesus Christ just think critically for one second.
Hey, we’d like to guarantee your child a future of being one of the most important people in the galaxy, with all their needs met as we turn them into space wizards who fight evil.
According to a lot of “not movies” media, many people who were trained to be Jedi didn’t make the cut. It’s one of those things that required a combination of remarkable effort and sheer talent and most people who were potential Jedi just lacked the raw skill to be considered one. As such, the Jedi had a large support auxiliary of force sensitive attendants and custodians who basically took care of the grunt work of the Jedi order. They weren’t true “Jedi Knights,” but they were a part of the order. They just spent their time scrubbing toilets and doing paperwork rather than banging queens and dismembering enemies of the state with laser swords.
I would take any of those jobs over mine any day of the week. I get minor force powers but I gotta plunge a toilet and room and board is free? Yes please.
Somewhere, there was some poor Force Sensitive who got just enough of a connection to the Force to get massive anxiety while in the Temple but not enough to leave his gardening job before Order 66.
You are also forbidden from fucking and, I would imagine, also masturbating. I think that’s the most interesting question about the Jedi Order: do they let their weird virgin space cultists shoot rope as long as it’s not into a person? I’d imagine not.
I apologize for a serious response to a funny meme, but for any who are interested in the philosophy of the star wars universe and the unique pressures presented by the existence of the force, check out this video. The whole “danger of attachment” concept is actually linked to the religious beliefs of George Lucas and is an interesting part of the story telling of the relationship of living beings to the force itself in the fabric of star wars. That is, Lucas star wars. Disney seems more ambivalent to the philosophical aspects of the franchise, but it’s always been pretty fascinating to me.
Gotta love people with confidence: “by the end [of this video], there will be nothing left to discuss regarding Star Wars”. That’s one hell of a lofty goal! I’ll need to watch it.
Right 😅 he is pretty sure of his views. It’s an interesting watch, but perhaps a bit pedantic at times. I think he understands the original intention behind the mainline movies storytelling better than any other video essays I’ve watched.
Oddly enough, its only “modern” Jedi’s who think there’s a danger to attachment, the old Jedis never had an issue. Theres also an entire Jedi sect who roam around the galaxy with husbands and wives.
Oh and ki-adi-mundi, who is a Jedi master on the council, who has multiple wives, their excuse is because his race is dying and the males must procreate. Plenty of other masters have had relationships and hid them or didn’t affect them.
So basically, it’s Yoda who has an issue with attachment, and pushes it on everyone else. What happened to yoda that made him so bitter?
He kept watching Jedi fall to the dark side by losing whatever it was they were attached to. It’s like he took the ideology of Buddhism’s attachment, where you can fall in love and enjoy things but must accept that they will not last forever, and dialed it to 11
Like Anakin and Padme. There’s other examples but that’s the most prevalent.
Which jedis are that? Did Obi-wan fall to the dark side? Ki-adi-Mundo? The entire Jedi sect? Windu? Kit fisto? A few even left the Jedi taking their traditions and doing their own thing, none of them turned from what I’ve read yet.
It’s easy to blame attachment as an escape goat, instead of addressing the problem with the Jedi created with their cult, as well as the sith working against them and using the Jedi against themselves. Yoda isn’t even consistent on his ruling either. This is probably the biggest issue, Jedi seeing others being allowed attachments, but forbidden for them? Yeah that won’t cause issues.
Anakin and padme aren’t the best example, he was being used against the Jedi by the sith from the start.
Anakin had also pedestalized Padme and might have even been force controlling her to be in love with him from the start depending on which fan theories you subscribe to.
To answer the question though, it’s not so much romance alone as obsession. The common thread of all stories of falling to the dark side involves fixation on some prize or goal or object of focus that the Jedi chases to the point of losing all control over themselves and their presence in the force.
Not to mention how fallen Jedi tend to be depicted as much more…angsty than their full fledged sith counterparts. Especially in media like SWTOR there’s a deep contrast between people who adopt the dark side and people who are part of it from the start. For adopters it’s a drug you can overdose on, for people steeped in it from the beginning it’s a steroid that still eventually destroys them but which isn’t a high to pursue in itself.
might have even been force controlling her to be in love with him from the start depending on which fan theories you subscribe to.
Man, that is a hilarious idea for explaining away the stiff dialog and delivery. Do you have any links handy? I really hope there’s more to that theory than that.
Idk if there’s any actual evidence for it. Just theory brought up by EU storylines. Like force connections where two people are connected through the force in a way that they can influence each other.
It’s the same power used in the theory of Padme’s death. The theory is that Anakin stole her energy through the force without realizing and killed her to save himself. So if they were already connected to the point Anakin could subconsciously push her into loving him he could just push that a step further and steal her life energy.
I’m reading the entire legends/EU series chronologically, about 1/3 the way through right now, on The Cestus Deception. Which is during the Clone Wars.
To answer the question though, it’s not so much romance alone as obsession. The common thread of all stories of falling to the dark side involves fixation on some prize or goal or object of focus that the Jedi chases to the point of losing all control over themselves and their presence in the force.
That’s a great point, but it doesn’t account for all the cases where it allows the Jedi to get through a tough situation and be better for it even. I didn’t want to broaden it too much myself, but a lot of jedis have other attachments, wheter it be their padawan braid… a specific look, or fighting style, almost every padawan is an attachment, if they weren’t, their training wouldn’t work.
For example, Obi wouldn’t be Obi and be able to handle his padawan if it wasn’t for the hardships of overcoming his attachments and using it to help him keep Ani in line.
The Jedi is a cult of hypocrisies and using others to achieve their goals. Also, the main reason why they indoctrinate children is too prevent the sith from getting them first, not such a good look.
Haha in all seriousness though, it’s great how deep the lore goes and how back and forth the black and white goes between the sith and jedi.
IMO Chaos from 40k represents what the Dark Side should represent better, pure bottomless descent.
It keeps taking and taking and taking until there’s nothing left, and then it makes you into a vessel to take from others to sate what you alone no longer can.
It’s damnation, but it’s also an addiction, it’s always eluding you and dancing further away for you to pursue for the next high, and no matter how close you get in that high, no matter how horrified you are by the true face of what you’re chasing when it’s in view, the new low you’ve brought yourself to for what you’re chasing, the new feat of horror you’ve subjected yourself and at this point your victims to, once it’s beyond your reach once more you can’t help but fall for the beautiful lie once more and resume the chase.
Darth Sidious isn’t a pinnacle of the dark side, he’s just the strongest crab in the bucket.
Maybe that’s something the high republic arc will explore more in coming years. It seems to me that it’s simply a result of the fiction of the extended universe stories being reconciled with Lucas’s core story. Different writers perspectives all getting rolled together in to one. Sometimes the writers have a solid, well thought out perspective, sometimes not.
The attachment thing became dogma after the fifth time the Sith turned the strongest of a generation of Jedi against them.
But I’m sure they learned from that and - oh, nope, they all got killed that time. Because this time the Dark Jedi didn’t have his redemption arc before the Republic got clapped for good, whoopsie!
Lucas always said the Jedi were basically meant to just knight coded Buddhists, but actual Buddhism rejects both hedonism, and asceticism.
Chasing perfection out of fear is also giving in to the dark side, because in doing so you deprive yourself and others of the simple joys of the world, when those things are what keeps us human.
The path to enlightenment isn’t to surpass humanity, it’s to fully recognize and embrace the cosmic essence of what humanity, and all other things are.
One day he was walkin’ and he found this big log. Then he rolled the log over and underneath was a tiny little stick and he was like, “That log had a child!”. Then a seagull squawk and he said “Listen, boy Someday when you are older You could get hit by a boulder While you’re lyin’ there, screamin’, Come help me please! The seagulls, mmgh, poke your knees”
That’s why yoda has issues with attachments because seagulls are gonna come at you. It’s either that or yoda used to be an IT guy and everyone keeps on clicking the phishing mail attachments
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