"No spouse, no property, mercy, that is, unconditional love, is the center of the life of the Jedi." Obviously, the Jedi is the philosopher king of Plato's ideal country and a replica of the medieval Catholic Church. “You can’t go to places you like, you can’t do things you like, and you can’t be with people you like. This is the oath of the Jedi Knights.” Because when Westerners regard ideals or God as the most real existence, they try to learn from limited experience. Life beyond the ideal kingdom must be contempt for the world and despise the flesh. Unconditional love is Christian fraternity. This kind of love smoothes out the difference between enemies and relatives. The superiority of fraternity lies in the little love that surpasses family affection, and the great love that can go to a higher level. The disadvantage of fraternity is that, as Mr. Zhao Tingyang said, “fraternity must be less love”. When we love all people unconditionally, our love will inevitably be spread very thinly, so everyone will get very little love. It's no wonder that Anakin's master can calmly say to Anakin's mother, "I'm here to perform a task, not to rescue slaves." He is quite unkind and regards everything as a dog.
This way we can reasonably explain the death of Anakin's mother. Why hasn't Anakin rescued his mother who was a slave for many years? Ideas, Gods, absolute orders, and fraternity. Westerners take these infinite universal principles as the basis of limited experience life, and at the same time plant the seeds of despising the finite and the individual. What we cherish is unconditional love, holding abstract absolute orders, what we want to love is the people under the world, Anakin still said that after killing all the barbarians (including women and children), how can we be obsessed with personal feelings? Because of the limited and individual love, it's okay for the mother to ignore it. So many Jedi elders are accustomed to it, and it is natural that Anakin will ignore orders to save his mother. Pity our protagonist has endured the tearing of infinite love and finite love, abstract love and family love.
We can see that as the protagonist of the movie, the Jedi Knight often shows personal heroism by unruly. In the face of this conflict between abstract love and specific love, for example, Anakin’s master refused to help liberate Anakin as a slave at first, but it often reflects the characteristics of Westerners who are extremely obedient to order and rules. This kind of consciousness is the foundation of a society under the rule of law, as well as the rationalization and rationalization of society as Weber said. People follow the rules on specific matters, so that society operates in this rational order. In this way, in the operation of society, the rules become prominent and people retreat. I remember that essayist Xia Jianyong complained that the rule of law was realized in Western society but no heroes. In fact, this is the reason. But at the same time, such a person has also become a part of the social machine. Real life is rich and changeable. The application of abstract rules to specific things is likely to be unreasonable, similar to procedural justice squeezing factual justice.
Abstract unconditional love squeezes concrete sensual love, and rational rules squeezes real life. This is the inherent contradiction of Western culture reflected by the Jedi Knights.
Let me spit a bit, no matter how the background and the scene change, quite a few American blockbusters really permeate the instructions of freedom against dictatorship. After understanding the core of this narrative, they have lost interest in many American movies. "Star Wars" also carries this feature, but this film is very exciting, so I forget this disgust for the time being. The background of the story is very Roman, and it should be interesting to analyze it from the perspective of history and politics, but for the time being, there is no interest.
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