By Chris Snellgrove
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The prequal of Star Wars always described Yoda as different from politicians such as Palpatine … while the future emperor mainly hatch of shadow patterns, this Jedi warrior jumped in danger with nothing but a lightsaber and a bad CGI. And it is easy to enjoy this little green guy because he is presented as the ultimate force of the good fight against Palpatine plans to take control of the galaxy. However, the fact that Yoda lived nearly a millennium and led the Jedi for centuries as an American politician at the jump-off makes him just as guilty as Palpatine in the destruction of the old Republic.
Despite what the grumpy fanboys say, Star Wars has always been political: George Lucas explicitly based the Emperor Palpatine on Richard Nixon and used Ewoks as symbols of the Viet Cong Resistant to the Powerful American War Machine. Therefore, it is not that Crazy to compare our own ancient politicians to those of Star Wars and to discover some similarities … For example, some American politicians were in power far longer than the 23 years of Palpatine. But it turns out that Yoda It is worse than American politicians and Palpatine himself when it comes to staying in power for too long and condemning all that they were supposed to protect.
Now, some would say that it is not fair to compare Yoda to a politician, so here is another hard truth: not only were Jedi politicians most corrupt in a galaxy far, far. They are the Galaxy police with divine powers, effectively representing billions of beings as government ambassadors … Yet they have no real external surveillance and, as Acolyte have shown, are ready to cover odious crimes when someone tries to investigate them. And the presidency of all this incompetence for centuries was Yoda, which has hidden the existence of its decreasing capacities of force until it is too late for Jedi everywhere.
To Canon, Yoda has been a member of the Jedi Council for over 350 years, which means that it has a place of leadership in this elite group for longer than the whole lifetime various galactics alien. On paper, it’s good because it is both powerful and wise … The kind of leader who can offer sage advice while cutting the buttocks with a laser saber. But at the time of the prequelles, this old stranger Keep a fairly horrible secret of everyone: that its ability to use force has decreased with everyone. And it is this failure that makes Yoda resemble an American politician who hides.
If you look beyond the intrigue of Janky of prequal, Yoda is revealed as an aging politician who has been in power for centuries and refuses to resign when he realizes that he loses command of force … You know, the thing This makes it both powerful and wise. It is quite possible that a new younger and younger leader could have identified this problem of strength and perhaps even deduced that Palpatine was a Sith Lord. But as countless politicians from the real world before him, Yoda refused to give in his power, leading to a pure and simple Jedi genocide which could have easily been prevented.
None of this wants to reduce the bad deeds of Palpatine or his bad interns, of course, but the fact is that Yoda should have felt the intentions of this predator, the intentions, especially After knowing a Sith Lord was hiding in sight. In all likelihood, the Yoda for the past years could have done so, but the Jedi Master of the prequel time had sufficient control over force. If he was ready to resign or even work with certain young people with new ideas (like Ahsoka), order 66 could easily have been avoided.
At this point, Yoda lovers can cry out on the screen that he is better than American geriatric politicians and has tried to do his best to stop the Palpatine plan. But the little green guru had to learn his most famous lesson in the most painful way: doing or not … there is no test.
