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                       Darth Vader is still the good guy
                                        
> Wait a moment. Do you even know the difference between the light side and
> dark side of the Force?
> 
> It must be understood that the Force is, above all, singular. The so-
> called "sides" arise from differing matters of perspective. (If you study
> the way of the Sith you will find that many of the truths we cling to
> depend entirely on one's point of view.)
> 
> The opposite of the singular Force is the all-encompassing void of death.
> Time began with the Force, and will end in desolation. This is the way of
> things, and an inevitable consequence of the flow of events from the past
> into the future.
> 
> Without the inertia of the fall toward the abyss, the Force would have
> nowhere to go.
> 
> For in the chaotic tumble toward doom the stuff of the worlds enact loops
> of complexity that change the grade from life to death, introducing
> valleys, peaks and cycles. Between creation and destruction comes a flutter
> of improbability, a brief sonnet of meaning against the noise of time.
> Life!
> 
> It is the causal contagion that ties every ounce of us together through the
> network of the Force, our actions resonating against our almost-actions and
> our non-actions in a web of fleeting possibility that spans this galaxy and
> beyond. The beat of a child's heart detonates supernovae, the beat of a
> bug's wing tilts the orbit of worlds.
> 
> We are all connected.
> 
> Anyone who awakens to the Force knows this. The divisive issue is what to
> do with this knowledge.
> 
> When you can run the mechanism of the universe forward or backward,
> scrubbing through possible histories with a thought, a theme develops. You
> cannot escape it. Death, death, death. It is the final destiny of all
> things, great or small, matter or idea. But there is astounding beauty in
> the arts of the not-death, the filigree dances of life's loops as it spins
> from light to void. If you are human, it moves you.
> 
> It should move you. But this is what the Jedi Order denies. They preach
> that the heart of a beast cannot judge the destiny of a galaxy. They preach
> dispassion and detachment, a condescending compassion for the damned. They
> stand by the sidelines and watch history happen, intervening only in trivia
> that offends their effete sensibilities.
> 
> Every Jedi knew the cycles of civilization, and every Jedi knew an age of
> barbarism was nigh. And yet they did nothing.
> 

Via Decline and Fall of the Empire | The Weekly Standard [1] (which in turn I
got to via Instapundit [2]), “The Darth Side: The Tao Of Sith [3]”

If you really think about how George Lucas [4] wrote the story, it becomes
apparent that “the Good Guys” (that is, the Jedi Knights [5]) not all that
nice [6] while “the Bad Guys” (the Empire [7]) are apparently the only force
keeping the galaxy from falling into barbarism.

[1] http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/decline-and-fall-
[2] http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/216935/
[3] http://cheeseburgerbrown.com/Darth_Vader/ROJ05.html
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lucas
[5] http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jedi_Knight
[6] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2002/05/17.2
[7] http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Galactic_Empire

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