09-10-2023, 01:28 PM
The Star Wars universe fascinates me with its exploration of pedagogical dyads and its version of pedagogy in general. Readers might know that the Jedi select their younglings very early and reject “applicants” - especially if they are too old. What is especially noteworthy is that the universe doesn’t condemn “kidnapping” these children. Children aren’t seen as property of families, races, species, or federations. Naturally, the strongest in the galaxy, an order, can take these highly gifted children as their own. A blood test is done, to confirm their midichlorian count, but the masters who search know it intuitively.
At puberty these younglings get assigned, by the high council, a master - a dyadic partner. This becomes their person. Family terms like father, mother, brother, sister, don’t do the relationship justice - also friend is wrong, but it is close. It is still a master. Now younglings are called padawans. Ascetic practice and self-mastery has begun before this transition, but in a setting with multiple different teachers and multiple students. The process with the personal master is more of a refinement.
Of course, George Lucas, uses retarded Holocaustianity and its adjacent slave morality, (the strongest/the messiah is the slave) to pass the hollyweird gates, but sneaking in this institution into a mainstream franchise is impressive, especially in its broader diffusion in “the clone wars”.
Readers might know the “George-Kreis” an nietzschean Männerbund who communally centred on a charismatic Master. Most famous acolytes became famous literati or tyrannicidal conspirators. Their basis was voluntary association. They could institute, together, a form of asceticism of the strong. Among many things their discipline included the banning of music (because George considered it subhuman at some point) and movies - instead the followers chose Plato and Shakespeare - poetry. They were in part selected for their physical beauty or noble or noteworthy lineage and mental distinction. This thoroughly elitist approach wasn’t enough, a further criterion was the manner in which they read poetry in their first session in front of others. What were they willing to feel in front of others? How did they treat the word of the master?
The Sith are in most constellations one Sith of pure lineage who is the Master and the student who is a fallen Jedi. Their dyadic rule, “the rule of two” is their main vehicle of power. Their relationship is also voluntary association, dyadic teaching, but their order is even more exclusionary. Both Jedi and Sith have no interest in pupils who are not naturally gifted.
In modern terminology: physiological development and enormous neuroplasticity of children has to be harnessed. It would be a shame not to differentiate the educational institutions and treat everyone as the same. The sick will make the strong weaker. As for eros, like most modern, I have no clue but in contradistinction to most I at least know that it works.
At puberty these younglings get assigned, by the high council, a master - a dyadic partner. This becomes their person. Family terms like father, mother, brother, sister, don’t do the relationship justice - also friend is wrong, but it is close. It is still a master. Now younglings are called padawans. Ascetic practice and self-mastery has begun before this transition, but in a setting with multiple different teachers and multiple students. The process with the personal master is more of a refinement.
Of course, George Lucas, uses retarded Holocaustianity and its adjacent slave morality, (the strongest/the messiah is the slave) to pass the hollyweird gates, but sneaking in this institution into a mainstream franchise is impressive, especially in its broader diffusion in “the clone wars”.
Readers might know the “George-Kreis” an nietzschean Männerbund who communally centred on a charismatic Master. Most famous acolytes became famous literati or tyrannicidal conspirators. Their basis was voluntary association. They could institute, together, a form of asceticism of the strong. Among many things their discipline included the banning of music (because George considered it subhuman at some point) and movies - instead the followers chose Plato and Shakespeare - poetry. They were in part selected for their physical beauty or noble or noteworthy lineage and mental distinction. This thoroughly elitist approach wasn’t enough, a further criterion was the manner in which they read poetry in their first session in front of others. What were they willing to feel in front of others? How did they treat the word of the master?
The Sith are in most constellations one Sith of pure lineage who is the Master and the student who is a fallen Jedi. Their dyadic rule, “the rule of two” is their main vehicle of power. Their relationship is also voluntary association, dyadic teaching, but their order is even more exclusionary. Both Jedi and Sith have no interest in pupils who are not naturally gifted.
In modern terminology: physiological development and enormous neuroplasticity of children has to be harnessed. It would be a shame not to differentiate the educational institutions and treat everyone as the same. The sick will make the strong weaker. As for eros, like most modern, I have no clue but in contradistinction to most I at least know that it works.