How to use the force!

There is a reason why we find stories pleasurable, that is because we are trying to extract the wisdom out of it and apply it to our own lives in order to avoid the mistakes of the characters and emulate their success.

It is funny how sometimes you watch or read something, and you didn't fully understand it, that information becomes dormant in your mind, you can't really make much sense or use of it until you are ready.

And then your mind gets flooded with it and you finally start to understand what you watched years ago.

A good story like the "Star Wars" movies especially the original trilogy, will get the archetypes right.

Even if it is a science fiction story and it is set in space and situation that you will never find yourself in, you identify with characters and become emotionally invested because they're emotional struggle and moral dilemmas and challenges are facing, are as real as it gets.

At the core the series of movies, is really about moderation, which is one of the biggest innovation of the western civilization. Moderation being especially a masculine value, which makes the movies very popular especially with boys and young males.

The force is a metaphor for anger, the energy inside of our body that makes us stronger for brief periods of time when we are endangered. There are stories about women lifting an entire car while angry to rescue their children.

Because anger is an impulse, you can't stop it, you can only channel it in a constructive or destructive way. This is why there is no middle way, because you are not in control over when you are going to be under is influence and when it is going to stop you can only choose one side, the dark side or the light side. Moderation is an extreme in itself rather than a ballance, this is why it is not doing a little of everything, it is doing the right thing to the full extent.

In the movie there is a perpetual fight between Jedi's and Sith's, highly trained and skilled warriors to use the same energy the "force", in two different ways.

The sith warrior derives his power from rage, which is the type of anger we experience when we lose hope, you reach the conclusion that there is no way to get what you need while the other parties are around, so the only way for you to meet your needs and want's is by destroying the other parties.

The name of the first movie is: "A new hope", by rediscovering someone who is fit to challenge the sith you rediscover hope, and with it moderation. The jedi uses the force in a way that makes him assertive.

Which is a way to use the force in a way to assert your needs and use it only in self defence. Joining the light side it is not the absence of anger as anger is the "force", it is the conscious choice that is made to express the anger to assert yourself rather than destroy others.

The jedi is vulnerable because it can become corrupted, one of the most iconic scene of the movie is the dialog between the Sith and the Jedi. In which the Sith tries to convince the Jedi to join the dark side. On the other hand the Sith is irredeemable, after you have committed so many atrouches things against others you will either spend the rest of your life in pain of what you have done or denial and continue to hurt others.

Another interesting aspect of the movie is that the negative character is the father of the hero, which is a way to illustrate the cycle through which societies go. They become powerful and prosper after which there is an epidemic of corruption and collapse.  

The past generation have been powerful enough to become corrupted, so the neglected and abused new generation have to become strong enough to assert themselves to stop the evil of their parents, in order to start a new period of prosperity.