The Prequel Trilogy along with Clone Wars 7 Season Run forces us to recontextualized the Original Trilogy and perhaps the greatest casualty of this is Master Yoda. I respected and admired Master Yoda so much as a child but after seeing how he was during The Clone Wars and how The Jedi Order fell on his watch. We come to realize that he learned nothing from the failures of the Jedi and he takes no personal accountability for the Fall of the Jedi. He tries to train Luke Skywalker just as he trained a 1,000 other Jedi. Even though their training methods and values led to their demise. In spite of this Grandmaster Yoda makes no adjustments or modifications to the Jedi Training Program whatsoever. Even though Grandmaster Yoda had 20 years to think about where the Jedi Order went wrong and how to fix them. We come to see that Grandmaster Yoda is in a Purgatory of his own creation. Just as Darth Vader is. Grandmaster Yoda is the true Sith in Star Wars imho. He never changes. He never evolves. He always thinks he’s right. Whereas Palpatine continued to evolve and adapt. Emperor Palpatine managed to rival Grandmaster Yoda in the Force. Even though he only had a relationship with the Force for a few decades and Grandmaster Yoda had a relationship with the Force for many centuries!

Bloomberg has also spent countless tens of millions of dollars funding lobby groups whose sole purpose is to travel to different state legislators and petition to have their civilian populations disarmed and unable to defend themselves against criminals or a tyrannical government. By force if necessary. His funding group is called Mayors Against Illegal Guns. One of the subgroups they fund is Moms Demand Action. We've had to fight them here in Texas years ago to have the right to carry a firearm without paying the government for a permission slip.

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One counter argument to tearm limits and simular things is that leaders will feal like they are in a hury to get things done that can't be properly done in their limited time leading to horable mistakes.

In defense of Bloomberg's limit on soda bottle sizes, Europe also has that to help curb excessive health issues to alleviate pressure on the health system. Thing is that Europe has a nationalised health system in one form or another, sugar taxes, serving limits, and public health programs that Europeans are willing to pay for

He is arguably the greatest jedi ever but maybe instead of just staying on as grand master for like 700 yrs he should have bumped around taking different roles every 50 yrs or so. Would have had the benefit of forcing him to change with the times by seeing how the lower levels of the order are functioning and also allowing him to more directly provide his knowledge to other jedi rather then dictating from the top and hoping his knowledge makes it through the jedi bureaucracy and himself learning through what makes it up to him through the bureaucracy. They really missed the boat by not utilizing such a powerful but also long lived jedi better. Really could have helped the order evolve.

Damn

rip bozo when he died in episode 6 ngl

no one man can hold all that power-Random human man

Yeaaa but Dooku was a hater

Am l. More likely

Replace Palpatine with Windu saying that.

Treason, it is, then

Yeah. I'd go so far as to say that even without Palpatine pulling strings and egging on a civil war, the Jedi Order was too self-absorbed to recognize how arthritic and powerless to do anything other than levy taxes the Republic had become. A separatist movement of some kind was inevitable, regardless of whether influential people like Dooku and Sidious, or even powerful commercial interests like the various megacorps that governed the CIS, helped it along.

There's that scene cut from "Attack of the Clones" where Dooku tells Padme that the Republic can't be fixed. She rejects the idea, because she doesn't want to believe it. It's only when Palpatine is being cheered as the Emperor she realises that Dooku was right.

The Galactic Republic got what it deserved too

@@tba113 You’re absolutely correct. That is the very reason why Palpatine achieved absolute power so seamlessly and masterfully. He wasn’t forcing anything, he wasn’t creating anything artificial. He was merely riding the tide of what was already inevitable.

Unfortunately it wasn't just the Jedi Order that paid," For their lack of vision." The rest of the Galaxy got front row seats.

Guilt leads to the dark side, it dose.

The Jedi Order was never intended to have any kind of political role, therefore its leader was never expected to have any political skills. The Grand Master of the Jedi Order has a role more in common with a Pope than with a President.

He wasn't a political leader, or at least wasn't supposed to be, he was the leader of a religious/diplomatic/military order that was supposed to be kept at arms length from the Republic bureaucracy. Not really a real world comparison I can make because historically those 3 were kept separate but maybe the role of the church in middle ages gov and Yoda was the pope (that's either a great comparison or an awful one or maybe both? I can't tell lol)

@@jameshagan2832 you are thinking of the knight Templar

@@1000nod yes! Excellent point

@@timonsolus so yoda was a child predator?

It was hard go detect because the dark jedi didn't want too be detected, they set everything up for the previous 2k yrs (?) to ensure that so the jedi just assume it's a fact. Before the rule of 2 it was probably very easy to detect when they had thousands of sith plus many more regular dark jedi and were out in the open

Another example would be Muammar Gaddafi, a charismatic soldier who seized power in Libya. 42 years later, this shell of man would be killed by his own people. He lost all of his great strengths from being in power for too long. He should given power to one of his sons and retired, but he didn't and paid the price.

@@samuelstephen8147 The main reason he was killed, is because he tried to get off the standard U.S. Dollar, and bring the Gold Dinar in to play.

@@lpg12338 That may be one of the reasons, but if you just look at the man himself from where he started his rule, that was a different man than the one who was killed on film. At first he was charismatic and clearly beloved. He drank his own Kool-Aid and believed that he was invincible (just look at his clothes). He erratically started supporting pretty much every terrorist organization under the sun and bears responsibility for the Lockerbie Bombing. He also was oblivious to how his people actually felt about him. He thought they all loved him. His fatal flaw was that he got to paranoid. He made speeches denouncing Libyans who rebelled as "dogs who would be hunted down". This was when the UN intervened and placed a no-fly zone over Libya. Before that Gaddafi was winning in the civil war. After he was captured and before he was killed, he insisted that he was their leader, further showing his obliviousness. All this to say that my point is that just like Yoda in the video, Gaddafi also got complacent during his long rule and he and Libya suffered because of it.

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“What you deny submits you”, as Carl Jung said.

ROFLMAO! Happy New-Year!

The Jedi Order was never a democracy. The Republic was (until Palpatine turned it into a dictatorship, the way Erdogan is doing in Turkey). That’s the difference.

@@timonsolus republic was more of an oligarchy then a democracy, why do the corp sectors get represented in the Senate? Might as well have jedi, and hutts represented in the sen .

I got that vibe too, that it was easier for a 900 year old being to let go of attachments than someone who lived a human lifetime.

I agree with you mostly, but Revan knew what he was doing. Revan sacrificed his soul to lead the galaxy on a Golden Path, one that the Jedi would never understand.

Having padawans on the council would be like having college students on a college board of trustees or whatever, actually not an awful idea if they are serious. Nevermind good point

The council was set up in three different categories Five liftetime members, who would serve till they died Four long term members Three short term members However, we dont know how long each of these things lasted, obviously Master Yoda and Master Yaddle are both members of a very long lived species, so is it decided by their lifetime, or by human lifetime, or what? What consists of a short term member? In the ten years, a fair chunk of time by human measurement, only two Council members had changed, Yaddle and Yarael Poof had been replaced by Shaak Ti and Coleman Trebor respectively. As such they only had two new members in what was essentially a nepotism breeding ground. Yoda had trained the majority if not all of them at some point, Mace had trained Depa, and Yoda had also trained Ki, making the top three of the council all essentially an old boys club, with no room for disagreement, as it would essentially be blasphemy to speak out against Yoda alone, let alone Yoda, Mace and Ki. Had the roles been swapped, had Yoda not been a lifetime member, things perhaps could have been better, Mace and the others didnt help, but a lot of the downfall of the Jedi falls suarely at Yoda's feet, as he couldnt change or adapt, to the realities of the situation, to the role the Jedi should play, or to the fact that the Sith had changed, and as it was run as an old money boys club, nobody else could stop it either, without overcoming one big, well small obstacles...Master Yoda.

@@jameshagan2832 I forgot what number it was in the "Evil Overlord list". 'I will have an ordinary 5 year old as one of my advisers, if they find a flaw in my plans I will not use that plan.'

🤔 But wasn't Yoda and the council that, more or less, abandoned Ahsoka which caused her to quit? The only person who didn't doubt her was Anakin which helped lead him down the path of the darkside.

@@charlesray9674 Yes, but Yoda had reservations about abandoning Ahsoka and later in the story arc where he went on that spiritual journey with R2D2, he had a dream/nightmare where his subconscious mind tried to deal with his concern over her fate and later on, Anakin's fate as well. I think he knew that the decision about abandoning Ahsoka caused several problems that would help send things spiraling out of control. In Rebels, there is a brief scene where, in a Jedi Temple, Ahsoka sees a Force projection of Yoda and though they don't say anything, the scene has a lot of emotion in it. Clearly Yoda regretted the council not standing by her.

@@LumVaughan But if Yoda had sided with her in the beginning, the rest of the council would have as well. Anyways, I always thought that Yoda knew that betraying her, he was saving her from the stagnation of the Jedi Order and she would had a better chance of saving Anakin from the darkside. He knew that the "Chosen One" wouldn't have necessarily saved the Order, but would led it to the path of cleansing. There were too many in the Order who were basically thinking they were better than average person (Ahsoka discovered how most of the public view the Jedi during her exile.)

No excuse. We have all worked in organizations of one kind or another and recognized that this or that was dysfunctional- - either the procedure was bad or there was an idiot in charge. While few might have the knowledge on how to fix it, we all have the ability to recognise it. When you are at the top, it could be difficult to see when cracks are showing up in your organization. Or, if your organization seems to be running well, it might be hard to accept that maybe it wasn't really. The librarian refused to accept even the remote possibility that there was information missing in the archives and didn't even consider consulting with someone to check if there was in fact a big gaping hole in their star charts. With that kind of attitude, who knows what other hacks were going on without her caring.

He actually became a jedi as a 100 years old male.

Did you just quote the whining man-child who ruined the Imperium. Everything that happened in 40k including the Tyranid invasion is Logar’s fault.

He would have been ignored and disregarded for all his crazy conspiracy theories

Qui-gon also wasn't interested in a position of power.

Feel like the council would have needed to be more diverse as a whole, Qui-gon wouldn't have the sway all on his own. However, there was other Jedi that grumbled about the way the council ran things besides just him. If a couple of them made their way to the council before the Clone Wars started, they may have had a chance for some real reform. Too many of them were unwilling to even attempt such a rise in station, thinking it wasn't worth their time when they could be dealing out their own bit of justice in places far from the council's influence.

Also Sidious may have used that to sink the jedi's reputation even more, combined with Dokou's treason the Jedi sitting out may have tipped the scales in Palpatines favor.

I know there are other councils within the order, isn't just the jedi council we see. I assume they play a role in selecting who serves on the main council and how the jedi as a whole function and is run on a day to day basis. There must be a way to remove jedi from the council because we know council members have fallen to the dark side, pretty sure they wouldn't just let them continue to sit on the council although that could make for some pretty epic council session. "How do we handle this this crisis on planet x where this group of fanatics have taken over and are slaughtering their enemies?" Dark side councilmember: maybe we should consider slaughtering the rouge government and enslaving their followers? Rest of council: here we go again (eye roll), always jumping right too the slaughtering and enslaving. Dark jedi: ok well what would you all do Jedi councilmember: maybe we should continue to do nothing? Rest of council: yes that always works itself out in the end Dark jedi: makes mental note to take followers to slaughter and enslave these ppl since the jedi clearly don't want to get involved in any way. Fast forward 3 months Whatever happened with that situation on planet x Dark jedi: it worked itself out as always (big evil grin) Rest of council: another success story!

The Force is in Balance only when the light side rules supreme. About 100 years before the events of the Phantom Menace the Sith managed to put the Force into imbalance by increasing their power and clouding the Jedi's judgment and abilities. That's why the Force created a chosen one to destroy the Sith.

Wookies and yodas species having 1 term makes no sense.

@Yoda there were just examples. Thinking was because of their longer life spans but that's not the point. The point is there needs to be term limits set on individual species.

Break.

Yeah, that would be the Jedi service corps. Primarily doctors, archeologists, farmers, and librarians. There were also Jedi detectives and the Temple Guard.

@@andrewlyon4495 I’m pretty sure most of those are Jedi rejects. (Except for temple guards)

Yet he chose to fight the Chancellor/Emperor in Episode 3 and lost. That is when he understood that only the chosen one could destroy the Sith. No one else.

... I forgot that I was watching a video on star wars politics. I love how you find real world examples of things you are discussing in star wars

And an incompetent buffoon and a real dick (even if ultimately on their side). If anything that is an example of the other extreme for sure.

Mainly the Jinx Voldermort placed on the position. The Drumstran school in Russia literally taught Dark Arts.