The force is a myth. A myth is a metaphor, that there will be a chosen one or a group who have a gift. If you will, Skywalker is a superhero. His father was a superhero who became corrupted. And in the latest star wars movie this myth is reduced to ashes.

Because that is a retelling of a truth: that there was a time when we were saved, and it is not our doing. We cannot have anyone specail . We cannot have heroes. Thanks to Vox Day, who identified this simpering maggot, who loved the fact that his family hated this and a tradition that pointed to something bigger was dead.

The Force doesn’t really care who you are. Nobody is the chosen one. Concepts like Destiny and Mysticism are hubris. Legends are problematic. The cycle of the empire vs the rebellion repeats in the first order vs the resistance and the ideologies of both sides are inherently flawed. It’s a machine. And the only way to be free is not to join. The past must be destroyed. The Jedi must end. We have to stop fighting what we hate and start saving what we love.
My favorite scene in the entire film is when Luke takes a torch to the Jedi Tree because he’s going to finally burn it all down. He’s going to burn the Jedi texts and end it. Then he hesitates. So Yoda appears as a force ghosts and does it for him. Yoda basically tells Luke to stop being so dramatic. Even in his attempt to hide from the past and close himself off from the Force, Luke is deifying the Jedi order. And Yoda tells him straight. None of this is really important. And then in a sublime moment commiserates with this former padawan by reminding him that when you’re a teacher, you’re agreeing to be the thing that your students move beyond. You get left behind, that’s part of the deal. Woof!
I mean, how great is that moment?
So yeah, when a movie takes the concepts that have been central to Star Wars and tears them down some people are going to react badly. I get that.
But God, how I loved it.
Writing is all about making choices and Rian Johnson made some bold choices. Which, in my opinion was better and braver than just playing it safe with fan service. I feel like J.J. righted the ship so that Rian could chart a new course. Because otherwise what’s the point of having more Star Wars movies at all?

I would ask the same question. If our art does not point to beauty, or truth, or honour, is it worthy of the label? Beauty is its own justification: it is fleeting and it is to be celebrated. Yesterday, driving with this playing, beauty caused me to tear up.

But without such, there is no point in creating. Putting the effort in. So such need to be called out. They are lying, for there is a chosen one, predicted well before the law, and whose authority is greater than that of Moses. In today’s text you get a sample of how the Pharisees would interpret scripture: every letter matters. Paul teaching, referring to the promise of Abraham.

Galatians 3:15-22

¹⁵Brothers and sisters, I give an example from daily life: once a person’s will has been ratified, no one adds to it or annuls it. ¹⁶Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring; it does not say, “And to offsprings,” as of many; but it says, “And to your offspring,” that is, to one person, who is Christ. ¹⁷My point is this: the law, which came four hundred thirty years later, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to nullify the promise. ¹⁸For if the inheritance comes from the law, it no longer comes from the promise; but God granted it to Abraham through the promise.

¹⁹Why then the law? It was added because of transgressions, until the offspring would come to whom the promise had been made; and it was ordained through angels by a mediator. ²⁰Now a mediator involves more than one party; but God is one.

²¹Is the law then opposed to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could make alive, then righteousness would indeed come through the law. ²²But the scripture has imprisoned all things under the power of sin, so that what was promised through faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

But this is kryptonite (another myth that the Social Activists have to destroy) to the progressives. Their God is a jealous God. The cannot accept that there is a n alternative to despair and convergence, and rage against all that look to the true, the correct, and call them Nazis. Such a twisted virtue spiral promotes not merely destruction of the individual, but corruption of society.

For they hate the truth and beauty, for they hated Christ first.

They don’t “miss opportunities.” They don’t “fail to understand.” They don’t “just not get it.” They genuinely live to shit on you, your values, your morals, your faith, your culture, and your children. They are purely destructive and there is no place in any civilized society for them.

And they know it, which is why they derive pleasure from tearing civilization down.

They are the rejected Muslim suitors throwing acid in the faces of the girls who rejected them. They are the gammas muttering spitefully about sexual proclivities of the pretty cheerleaders and ponytailed soccer players whom they will never attract. They are cowards insistent that not only are there no heroes, but that heroism is impossible.

This is all you really need to know about SJWs: “The only way to be free is not to join. The past must be destroyed.”

The negation of all that is beautiful, good, and true is the heart of the SJW.

I am not going to pay money to see the latest Star Wars movie. No point. People have taken one for the team, seen it, and pronounced it as a horror. I would rather find beauty in a flower, love in my family, and worship the God of creation, not the idols of transgression, progression, and tolerence.

For this is Whiggish, and the first Whig was the devil. I do not want to be as him, or like him.