#jedi council membres

[coline7373]

Just a quick rant to say how much I dislike fics where a jedi knight or master go up in front of the Council to lay into them about how stupid and heartless and ineffective and corrupted by their ties to the Senate and strangled by their own traditions they are.

1/ The very definition of a master jedi is one who has mastered themselves, work within the light, in service of others.

I'm not saying no one ever faltered from those ideals. But I AM saying that a master is in enough control of themselves they don't need to 'rant' (see, shout) to process their emotions, get their point across OR enact changes.

Not to mention that keeping all those resentement and negative emotions simmering as they are until they blow up is cultivating the Dark.

Only by processing those emotions in a healthy way can one see the situation as it really is, instead of how one feel about it, and work on the cause of these emotions rather than its effects successfully.

Which is what the Light and the jedi are all about.

And since when shouting at someone has ever helped them change their mind? This is not working toward "better". This is just venting, regardless of the cost to others, because if feels good.

Instant gratification at the expense of others is not of the Light, regardless of who "others" are.

2/ Most of the complaints are not actually those of the character but the author. I wish author would be honest about subverting the material for their own ends.

3/ Those complaints are not actually about SW things but about a westerner person applying their own morals, based on their references frame, that stems from being born and living in a western society, on eastern values, and judging them wrong for not complying about what everyone know is "good".

What is "good" is not always universal.

Murder, theft and incest are just about some of the only ones I can think of that are widely accepted as wrong.

Everything else is very much society based.

So it's not a matter of "good" the jedi are not complying to (if the author even applies good faith on the jedi's faults without making them the culprits of everything that is wrong within the Republic) but a matter of cultural perspective.

You know, the thing jedi are famed to be respectful of, unlike irl westerners.

(3*/ Before making Mace Windu a tyrannical, blind, dogmatic Head Enforcer of Wrong Laws, please, actually, try to look at any kind of material about him, be it in TCW or comics.)

4/ Just say you don't like jedi and tag your work anti-jedi. Thanks.