Someone pointed out that Anakin Skywalker's story in Star Wars was intensely right wing.
I hadn't thought about it that way, but yeah....
There's a religion centered around warrior monks who uphold ancient traditions. They break the tradition saying you do not train children too old just once for this boy because he might be special, which turns out to destroy the entire order. The boy is tempted by a woman who is also against the ancient tradition which also leads to the destruction of the order.
Instead of taking the slow path of tradition the now grown boy is lured by promises of quick and easy power through disregarding traditions by someone hoping to tear down everything and build something new based on ideas in direct opposition to the current orthodoxy, and when they succeed it makes the entire galaxy a terrible, nightmarish place.
Ultimately the boy is defeated by his master who follows traditions, and the aftermath of that sees his purity as a human being dramatically affected, where he's more machine than man.
His final redemption comes from family and returning to the traditions he grew up with.
Anakin's story is very right wing, but that's not the only story there is. The story of the Jedi as a whole is muti-faceted, and Luke's story is about balancing learning the power of tradition and adhering to moral codes while also being flexible and being authentic to yourself.
Yoda and Obi-wan representing the past also would have had him kill Vader rather than trying to save him. That's sort of interesting.... From a theological standpoint you could consider it like the difference between the precursor religion of the old testament and the new testament. Laws vs. compassion and forgiveness.
In one sense, you could consider the first trilogy (chronologically) to be more like the old testament, the second trilogy to be more like the new testament, and the third trilogy to be more like postmodernism and reflecting neomarxism in the intention of the work.
Some people suggest that postmodern neomarxism is almost an Abrahamic religion since it is often based around presuppositions that only make sense from an Abrahamic lens. As an example, Marxism posits that people ought to be equal. Why? The idea that all people are equal is highly unusual around the world and throughout history, and often there were different codes of laws for the powerful and for the weak. The Roman Empire famously had the line "Vae Victis", Suffering to the conquered, and that was reality throughout most of history. It was only with Christianity that the idea of all people being created equal and being equal in the eyes of God that such ideas became commonplace. As another example, you could consider Marx to hold the same sort of role as a prophet as Moses in the Abrahamic tradition, and while Islam has the Quran, Judaism has the Talmud and the torah, and Christianity has the old and new testaments of the bible, so does marxism and by extension neomarxism have its sacred texts. Just as Christianity has the apocalypse where if everyone does the right things then it will usher in utopia on earth, Marxism has 'real communism' where if everyone does the right things then it will usher in utopia on earth. It makes perfect sense that marxism would have many elements of Abrahamic religions since it is a product of its time, place, and creator. Marx was a secular Jew, and while he may have disregarded his upbringing overtly, it would still have had a profound effect on his way of thinking.
In some ways, the third trilogy explicitly lays out postmodernism. "Let the past die. Kill it if you have to" is a recurring theme, which itself is postmodern.
From a neomarxist perspective, the first order is portrayed as having overwhelming power despite being the last fragments of an empire that's already been destroyed and supplanted by a new republic, which makes no sense logically but if your movie needs to be neomarxist, the enemy must be more powerful than you. I'm meaning in terms of viewing everything through the lens of power. The idea that a small resistance first order is not a direct threat to the new republic but is nonetheless the bad guy is at odds with an ideology that considers power to be often the arbiter of truth, so the "bad guys" need to be overwhelmingly powerful even if it doesn't make sense logically.
I can understand that if the third is postmodern neomarxism, that's also why many people didn't like it, because that doesn't really make for a good star wars movie. Previous iterations of Star Wars played with the themes of light and dark with for example the grey jedi, but the postmodern iteration paradoxically presents mastery of the jedi arts as something valuable, while also attacking the jedi and its practitioners.
This could also represent an example of dichotomy, but I don't want Anakin's youtube parody to find me and cut me down for plagiarizing his thesis on darth plagius the wise studies...
I hadn't thought about it that way, but yeah....
There's a religion centered around warrior monks who uphold ancient traditions. They break the tradition saying you do not train children too old just once for this boy because he might be special, which turns out to destroy the entire order. The boy is tempted by a woman who is also against the ancient tradition which also leads to the destruction of the order.
Instead of taking the slow path of tradition the now grown boy is lured by promises of quick and easy power through disregarding traditions by someone hoping to tear down everything and build something new based on ideas in direct opposition to the current orthodoxy, and when they succeed it makes the entire galaxy a terrible, nightmarish place.
Ultimately the boy is defeated by his master who follows traditions, and the aftermath of that sees his purity as a human being dramatically affected, where he's more machine than man.
His final redemption comes from family and returning to the traditions he grew up with.
Anakin's story is very right wing, but that's not the only story there is. The story of the Jedi as a whole is muti-faceted, and Luke's story is about balancing learning the power of tradition and adhering to moral codes while also being flexible and being authentic to yourself.
Yoda and Obi-wan representing the past also would have had him kill Vader rather than trying to save him. That's sort of interesting.... From a theological standpoint you could consider it like the difference between the precursor religion of the old testament and the new testament. Laws vs. compassion and forgiveness.
In one sense, you could consider the first trilogy (chronologically) to be more like the old testament, the second trilogy to be more like the new testament, and the third trilogy to be more like postmodernism and reflecting neomarxism in the intention of the work.
Some people suggest that postmodern neomarxism is almost an Abrahamic religion since it is often based around presuppositions that only make sense from an Abrahamic lens. As an example, Marxism posits that people ought to be equal. Why? The idea that all people are equal is highly unusual around the world and throughout history, and often there were different codes of laws for the powerful and for the weak. The Roman Empire famously had the line "Vae Victis", Suffering to the conquered, and that was reality throughout most of history. It was only with Christianity that the idea of all people being created equal and being equal in the eyes of God that such ideas became commonplace. As another example, you could consider Marx to hold the same sort of role as a prophet as Moses in the Abrahamic tradition, and while Islam has the Quran, Judaism has the Talmud and the torah, and Christianity has the old and new testaments of the bible, so does marxism and by extension neomarxism have its sacred texts. Just as Christianity has the apocalypse where if everyone does the right things then it will usher in utopia on earth, Marxism has 'real communism' where if everyone does the right things then it will usher in utopia on earth. It makes perfect sense that marxism would have many elements of Abrahamic religions since it is a product of its time, place, and creator. Marx was a secular Jew, and while he may have disregarded his upbringing overtly, it would still have had a profound effect on his way of thinking.
In some ways, the third trilogy explicitly lays out postmodernism. "Let the past die. Kill it if you have to" is a recurring theme, which itself is postmodern.
From a neomarxist perspective, the first order is portrayed as having overwhelming power despite being the last fragments of an empire that's already been destroyed and supplanted by a new republic, which makes no sense logically but if your movie needs to be neomarxist, the enemy must be more powerful than you. I'm meaning in terms of viewing everything through the lens of power. The idea that a small resistance first order is not a direct threat to the new republic but is nonetheless the bad guy is at odds with an ideology that considers power to be often the arbiter of truth, so the "bad guys" need to be overwhelmingly powerful even if it doesn't make sense logically.
I can understand that if the third is postmodern neomarxism, that's also why many people didn't like it, because that doesn't really make for a good star wars movie. Previous iterations of Star Wars played with the themes of light and dark with for example the grey jedi, but the postmodern iteration paradoxically presents mastery of the jedi arts as something valuable, while also attacking the jedi and its practitioners.
This could also represent an example of dichotomy, but I don't want Anakin's youtube parody to find me and cut me down for plagiarizing his thesis on darth plagius the wise studies...
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I was thinking of what Star Wars for the Quran would look like, but my understanding is that Dune is basically that.
Sometimes in all the thousands of hours of entertaining videos about Star Wars I've seen (and particularly the prequel trilogy), I forget that it's got lines like "Only a master of evil, Darth" or "I don't like sand" or 20 minute long action sequences that put me to sleep.