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Post #1143087

Author
DrDre
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The Last Jedi: Official Review and Opinions Thread ** SPOILERS **
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Date created
16-Dec-2017, 6:07 AM

Z6PO said:

LexX said:

DrDre said:

It burns the old Jedi texts for crying out loud, as a statement that the ancient history of the Jedi is boring.

That really pissed me off as a message the film gives at that point. “History is boring, let’s burn it for a few laughs.” And coming from Yoda it didn’t suit at all. I get the idea what it was trying to make which is let’s begin with a clean slate, but you should never turn your back on history. It always teaches something. That’s like burning constitutional laws or something.

The message being that the Jedi Order was wrong: the Force shouldn’t be a dogma. It shouldn’t be teached from ancient books by secluded monks to a few selected novices, but made accessible to everyone.

And what are books for? Making knowledge accessible to anyone who wants to read them. Anyone who claims burning books, makes you wiser is a fool. Reading them and forming your own ideas and opinions based on multiple sources of information seems far more wise to me.