Individuals in the seduction community like to use the analogy of the Jedi, and specifically the dark side as a metaphor for the different styles and approaches for Game. The dark side is used as a warning, a pronouncement that something is wrong.
So in the spirit of those that see the Star Wars saga as a good analogy for practitioners of Game, it is time to look a little closer to the metaphor that people seem to miss, but has very strong implications.
What are Jedi forbidden to do? What leads them to the dark side? What leads Anakin to the dark side?
The answer is a pretty simple one, and one that will make some practitioners and advocates of LTR uncomfortable, or it should.
A Jedi is schooled to control his anger and feelings, but the one thing the Jedi is absolutely forbidden to feel is LOVE.
In the movies, it is love, and specifically the love of his mother and more importantly the love of a woman, Padme, that leads Anakin to the dark side.
Lets start with Anakin’s mother. She is a single mother, she is a slave, she will not admit to any responsibility on her part for bearing a son into slavery, Anakin just happened. Anakin, when offered the chance to be free and be a Jedi hardly looks back on his mother, despite his young age. Nor does he have anything to do with her for years.
Yet, when she is threatened, when she dies, Anakin is filled with such anguish and rage, that he cannot understand or control it.
Unintentionally George Lucas scripts a terrible indictment on single motherhood.
Then there is Padme. Anakin, despite living in the galactic capital suffers from obvious pedestalization of the girl as well as a scarcity mentality. He doesn’t see her for six years, yet he yearns for her the first moment he sees her again. He is forbidden to love her, yet he does.
What is it that leads him to the dark side? The risk of losing that love, the risk that something will happen to her and ultimately his love of Padme, his pedestaling of her, his scarcity mentality leads to his undoing.
Love, and specifically love of a woman leads to the downfall of men. That is the message of the films.
Now lets complete the arch. What is it that enrages Luke against his father? What is it that gets him to the brink of going to the dark side?
The love of his sister. A different love, but still a woman.
It is still the protective feelings for women, the love of women that Star Wars shows is what leads men astray, what destroys them, what tempts them to act out of balance, what brings them to the dark side.
What redeems Anakin in the end is not a woman, not a daughter, but his son.
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