GameCat16

The current discourse about Anakin Skywalker is really brain dead. The Jedi Order was a fundamentally good institution that had been corrupted and compromised in many ways. This often happens in real life as well. But part of maturity is knowing when an institution needs to be destroyed, and when it needs to be reformed, or prophetically defied and called back to its original purpose. Dooku and the Separatists became too jaded and impatient with the Republic and Jedi Order, and took a tear-it-all-down approach. This led to them becoming pawns of a greater evil (Palpatine). Anakin falls into this same foolishness and impatience through his personal issues. By doing this they welcomed a greater evil than anything the Republic ever produced. Obi-Wan had his faults. He was blind to much of the rot in the system, and even closed his eyes to some of it, because he still fundamentally believed in the good of the institutions he served, but he was not corrupt himself. Still, between Anakin and Obi-Wan, Obi-Wan was the better and wiser man in Revenge of the Sith. Yet, wiser than both of them was Qui-Gon Jinn. He saw the rot within the Order and defied it regularly, yet he didn’t lose sight of what it was truly there for. Even when his master Dooku left in disillusionment, Qui-Gon stayed and worked within the Order without compromising his morals, serving as a reminder to them of what they even existed for. All of that to say, if you see rot within our current institutions and your only impulse is to “burn it all down”, you have some maturing to do, and you’re practically begging to become the pawn of a greater evil.