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Early accounts really show the Jedi Order being quite rosy with the younglings and padawans seeming happy and cheerful. This show is darker about the history with the Jedi going around stealing children from systems they deem less civilized than them. I don’t think they touched on this from the same angle before. At least to me it seems like they’re drawing from the history of the Catholic Church and Residential schools. Qi Mir, Osha, and Mae being the survivors of that.
Well of course they seem happy and cheerful, they were taken from their families as infants, raised in a privileged atmosphere of wealth, and brain washed 24 hours a day that they represented the right side of the force. Then they are sent out on missions, where they basically a free to kill with the justification that its good works.
Osha left the order, but if you look at the history of the Jedi, its rare that they leave. I mean in their thousands of years of existence only 20 Masters left the order, and what happened to them? Most of them were hunted down for what was deemed apostasy and slaughtered.
But most of these children were zombies blindly following a elitist and your right, very church philosophy.
What were Count Dooku's crimes when he left. He was tired of the corruption of the Republic, he was tired of Jedi dying for not the will of the Force, but the will of the Jedi.
I mean even when you look at the Jedi Code,
There is no emotion, there is peace.There is no ignorance, there is knowledge.There is no passion, there is serenity.There is no chaos, there is harmony.There is no death, there is the ForceIt reads like a cult manifesto, and it denies what makes people for lack of a better word human. If you look at it, its something that' literally enslaving, and Jedi Children are meant from the moment they can talk, to mumble this over and over again.
Meanwhile you look at the Sith Code
Peace is a lie. There is only Passion.
Through Passion, I gain Strength.
Through Strength, I gain Power.
Through Power, I gain Victory.
Through Victory my chains are Broken.
The Force shall free me.[2]
Its a more human state, we all want to have power over our lives, and freedom to chose. Darth Bane was nothing better then a slave born into a mining family and his fate was to eventually be worked to death and die in the mines. But he became a Sith with the power of the force and he threw off his shackles, gained tremendous knowledge and was rewarded for his desire to be free.
But what about Palpatine, you'll say, he was evil, he blew up planets, and killed billions and started a war that he played both sides are. He's a example of what happens when a probably natural psychopath, has the power of the Force. What about Vader? Well look at his master, who taught him about the force.
The Sith wanted exactly what the Jedi wanted, a peaceful and orderly Galaxy, the Sith just too a more direct path to it. The Jedi allowed themselves to be corrupted on the way.
You can point to the Jedi and any religion and see the similarities. All religions want to get their members as young as possible, because its easy to brain wash them, and then as it gets older it becomes the ability to justify acts of evil and wrongness with the whole, its the will of God or Allah.
The Jedi also believe that there is a will to the force, that the force controls their destiny, which in religious terms is Gods will.
The Sith would be atheists, they know there's a god (the Force), but they believe that they can bend their god (the force) to their will and power.
The Sith also take a lot more personal responsibility, while they talk about destinies, they don't break down each individual action whether good or evil as the will of the Force. They see it as the price they have to pay to gain power over themselves, over a community, a city, a state, a planet, and eventually the whole galaxy.