I remember a conversation I had a long time ago with a friend and they compared the Jedi Order to their religious church. I am not personally religious, nor was I raised in a particularly religious household, so I don't feel completely comfortable talking about the Jedi Order from a religious perspective. But you saying that the Jedi were "mainstream" and generally accepted by the general public reminds me about how a lot of religious institutions and churches are rampant with abuses and controls of power, but due to how normalized they are and how much power they hold they are not seen as negatively as cults are by society.
And I completely agree with you about how the Jedi Order is meant to be seen as an object lesson. That particular theme is one of my favorite parts of the prequels and I really liked how they carried it over and expanded on it in the clone wars cartoon.
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Date: 2019-02-04 01:06 am (UTC)I remember a conversation I had a long time ago with a friend and they compared the Jedi Order to their religious church. I am not personally religious, nor was I raised in a particularly religious household, so I don't feel completely comfortable talking about the Jedi Order from a religious perspective. But you saying that the Jedi were "mainstream" and generally accepted by the general public reminds me about how a lot of religious institutions and churches are rampant with abuses and controls of power, but due to how normalized they are and how much power they hold they are not seen as negatively as cults are by society.
And I completely agree with you about how the Jedi Order is meant to be seen as an object lesson. That particular theme is one of my favorite parts of the prequels and I really liked how they carried it over and expanded on it in the clone wars cartoon.