Well, okay...I don't stan them.
But I have mixed feelings about them.

As a kid I was really into Star Wars and looked up to the Jedi, so I think it's a hold over from that.
The Jedi are flawed, foolish, short-sighted and kind of cowardly (among other things) and The Republic is a stagnant beasts with an inefficient anachronistic and byzantine system where the worst kind of poverty has existed for millennia.
...But I still kind of like them, despite their tragic faults.

Well...Idk if I like The Republic as depicted in Star Wars, in some ways I hate it.
But the idea of a galactic society where hundreds if not thousands of peoples and cultures are brought together to coexist is one I really like, and I can understand in the early days why the Jedi would of supported the creation of such an organization.
Of course it is just that, an idea , and the lore is filled with the many ways The Republic as a bourgeoise order failed these ideals.

Ultimately I think the Jedi erred in so closely associating themselves with and mooring themselves to a state.
Their understanding of the force and themselves is also incomplete or lacking, I think.
But at the end of the day I still like the little space wizard monks.
I respect their aim in controlling their emotions (even if it often materializes in suppression instead) and in being diplomats and peacekeepers for the galaxy (even if it often materializes in propping up an unjust status quo).

But now I am starting to ramble about children's media, which is an unforgivable crime, so I'll stop.

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  • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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    3 years ago

    I'm kind of in a weird place where I find the Jedi really cool viscerally, but I hate them on an intellectual level. So it makes sense that my favorite Star Wars properties (Kotor2 and The Last Jedi) have cool lightsaber fights and also talk about how the Jedi suck ass

    • REallyN [she/her,they/them]
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      3 years ago

      There needs to be a Jedi Karl Marx so the Jedi can understand historical materialism as well as the force influences galactic events and to show them a path out of The Republic's bourgeoise ideology.
      Other then that they have almost the right idea, I think....almost.

      • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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        3 years ago

        I'm not sure how materialism works in Star Wars when the Force basically enforces idealism. Even Kotor2, which goes out of its way to show that the average person doesn't really care about the difference between Jedi and Sith, still does demonstrate that history in SW is a matter of dueling ideas rather than class warfare.