What do we learn about Yoda in ROTS that we didnt know before?Well for one thing we learn that he is a very inflexible person, so wrapped up in his Jedi dogma that he cant see the forest for the trees.Yoda,if so perceptive you are, why notice that Anakin was boinking Padme?Obi-Wan knew; so what is your problem,O perceptive one? He is the Chosen One, and you pay so little attention to him that you can't even tell he's chafing violently at the restrictions placed on him?Yoda'restrictions.Yoda,for all his supposed wisdom,preaches the virtue of selflessness not because he believes he should help others,but because thats the jedi code.The code now exists for its own sake, and over the centuries,hes forgotten why.The Jedi Order has no particular mandate to help people.its only mandate is to keep peace and uphold the code.
Of what use is a moral code if it does not tell you to help others?This is a question which Yoda apparently never thought to ask.Even in the Empire Strikes Back,when Luke wants to go save his friends, Yoda councels him to let them die.Yoda is not an evil person, but he is not a caring person either.He's more about following rules.
Yoda obviously never saw Anakins fall coming, because after eight centuries of introducing Jedi from infancy,he simply couldn't imagine a Jedi not having the same blind faith in the rules that he did.Love,jealousy,hate anger are all emotions,all passions, all the paths to the Dark Side,but caring and sympathy are emotions too,and Yoda threw out the baby with the bathwater.
A Thought Anyone
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