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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 7595336" data-attributes="member: 59082"><p>Here's a thought. Maybe part of the deception of the Sith is that there needs to be "dark vs light", evil vs good. It is to further the duality, to push everyone into this or that side (Sort of like the current cultural-political landscape!)</p><p></p><p>On the other hand, I would think it a rather naive view to hope that a Force--and universe--without the Dark Side would ever be fully possible, at least in a permanent way. Balance might be restored for a time, but will inevitably go out of whack again. The Indian yuga cycles illustrates this quite well and it is echoed through many mythologies and is, I think, intrinsic to the human condition on Earth, at least from a mythological perspective. There's a "Golden Age" but an inevitable Fall, and then through long toil--the Hero's Journey--we rise up again and create a new Golden Age...which can only ever be impermanent and will lead to another Fall, etc.</p><p></p><p>Its sort of like the delight a child takes in doing something dangerous and scary, like a rollercoaster. When the ordeal is over there's a brief pause, which the adult parent experiences as a kind of micro-Golden Age, and then child says "Let's do it again!"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 7595336, member: 59082"] Here's a thought. Maybe part of the deception of the Sith is that there needs to be "dark vs light", evil vs good. It is to further the duality, to push everyone into this or that side (Sort of like the current cultural-political landscape!) On the other hand, I would think it a rather naive view to hope that a Force--and universe--without the Dark Side would ever be fully possible, at least in a permanent way. Balance might be restored for a time, but will inevitably go out of whack again. The Indian yuga cycles illustrates this quite well and it is echoed through many mythologies and is, I think, intrinsic to the human condition on Earth, at least from a mythological perspective. There's a "Golden Age" but an inevitable Fall, and then through long toil--the Hero's Journey--we rise up again and create a new Golden Age...which can only ever be impermanent and will lead to another Fall, etc. Its sort of like the delight a child takes in doing something dangerous and scary, like a rollercoaster. When the ordeal is over there's a brief pause, which the adult parent experiences as a kind of micro-Golden Age, and then child says "Let's do it again!" [/QUOTE]
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