paradox2011 22 points 3 years ago

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.

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SchmidtGenetics 32 points 3 years ago

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?

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ThatWeirdGuy1001 21 points 3 years ago

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.

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Lepsea 16 points 3 years ago

What happened to yoda that made him so bitter?

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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PhlubbaDubba 11 points 3 years ago

Yaddle musta made him look like a horny little creep at the life day party one year after turning down a move

More seriously, Dark Side Yoda from the Netflix finale of the clone wars constantly talked about not being allowed to come out and play,

This makes me think that Yoda had a Ghandi complex, complete with the very weird notions of needing to resist the thiccness to achieve maximum powaz.

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DragonTypeWyvern 4 points 3 years ago

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!

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paradox2011 2 points 3 years ago

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.

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ninjan 10 points 3 years ago

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.

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paradox2011 4 points 3 years ago

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.

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KazuyaDarklight 4 points 3 years ago

I'll need to go back and watch more, but I feel this guy completely misunderstands Darth Jar Jar.

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