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firstorderforceuser:
The Star Wars myth is basically Taoist and Buddhist philosophy viewed through the cracked lens of monotheist binary thinking. It’s assigning arbitrary concepts that are entirely dependant on personal point of view and societal context - “good” and “evil” - to permutations of nature, this way portraying those arbitrary concepts as part of nature (which they are not).
That’s why the Star Wars canon is broken. Nature doesn’t work the way it says it does, and neither does human nature. Funny how monotheistic religions take parts of human nature (like homosexuality, or any kind of sexual desire that does not immediately lead to procreation or exists outside of constricting, arbitrary rules, anger, the fear of loss, questioning authority) and dub it a “sin”?
So it follows that fans who pick up on this, who have been rejected by society and prevalent religions and their idea of “good” and “evil”, people who are neurodivergent, queer, or non-conformist, will feel an affinity to the dreaded “Dark Side” and its characters, looking for more, looking for characters they can identify with; because they sure as hell can’t find those on the “Light Side”.
– @sleepyowlet
This was added as a comment to one of my posts, but it absolutely stands on its own.
firstorderforceuser:
The Star Wars myth is basically Taoist and Buddhist philosophy viewed through the cracked lens of monotheist binary thinking. It’s assigning arbitrary concepts that are entirely dependant on personal point of view and societal context - “good” and “evil” - to permutations of nature, this way portraying those arbitrary concepts as part of nature (which they are not).
That’s why the Star Wars canon is broken. Nature doesn’t work the way it says it does, and neither does human nature. Funny how monotheistic religions take parts of human nature (like homosexuality, or any kind of sexual desire that does not immediately lead to procreation or exists outside of constricting, arbitrary rules, anger, the fear of loss, questioning authority) and dub it a “sin”?
So it follows that fans who pick up on this, who have been rejected by society and prevalent religions and their idea of “good” and “evil”, people who are neurodivergent, queer, or non-conformist, will feel an affinity to the dreaded “Dark Side” and its characters, looking for more, looking for characters they can identify with; because they sure as hell can’t find those on the “Light Side”.
– @sleepyowlet
This was added as a comment to one of my posts, but it absolutely stands on its own.
