The Virtue of the Sith

The Virtue of the Sith

Or

The Ethical Certainty and Purity of Moral Purpose with the Sith as Enemy Image.

(and other Religious Fundamentalists, Clerical Fascists and Tyrants)

" Always two there are,

No more, no less.

A Master and an Apprentice."

" But which was destroyed ? 

The Master or The Apprentice? "

What part of "There are always two of them" did you not f***king understand, Windu..?

I'm gonna have to go with "all of it", because it's quite clear that you don't understand a damn thing about the Nature of Evil and are totally closed-minded and unwilling to gain such understanding, evil to better know how to fight it.

Which is why it knows you better, it will beat you and you will never see it coming.

As you can't even see it.

  "So much of this is denial. That we have no Dark Side. 

You know: the hippies, and those lovely people in the rave era who were all on ecstasy – they tried to pretend we have no Dark Side. 

And what happened was they got fucked up by their own Dark Side. 

As will ALWAYS happen."

If you understand the Rule of Two at all (which you clearly don't), you will understand that by its very nature, The Sith Master would never reveal himself or expose himself to capture or physical harm, so that has  to have been The Apprentice, and it can only be The Apprentice - The Apprentice has to keep The Master alive until he has learnt all of his secrets of the Dark Side, otherwise they will die with him (exactly as Anakin does by attacking Mace), and likewise, he has  to submit completely to the Will of the Master and do his bidding in all things or risk being abandoned or replaced (both of which would be lethal).

Even if that subservience includes actions intended to reveal his own existence as a Sith Lord, as in the case of Darth Maul, thereby guaranteeing both his death and ensuring that he will never achieve his sole aim in life of replacing his Master, since he has now revealed himself to The World as a Sith Lord.

If he should fail - he can still achieve his aim, provided he kills everyone who ever saw or who came into contact with him; a task which Maul sets about with clear and obvious zeal and relish.

"A Sith Lord?!?"

No clue. Had absolutely no idea.

And they totally were  warned - Count Dooku told them that, apparently until he was blue in the face, got fed up, quit the Jedi Order and hooked up with Sifo Dyas/Sideous.

They took absolutely no notice.

Then he told Obi Wan, again, on Geonosis, and Obi Wan (who doesn't know at that point that he's evil, certainly not that he's a Sith apprentice himself), refuses to believe him.

"Impossible - We would have known about it."

Yeah, cuz you know everything about anything - except for the Dark Side, which you know absolutely NOTHING about, because you ignore and avoid it.

"We must move quickly if the Jedi Order is to survive..."

Yeah - because that's what's important...

Notice that he doesn't even pretend to give a shit about Democracy, law, elected government, constitutionality, moral ethics or Natural Law - 

"I have just learnt of the existence of an existential threat to my elite peer group and our privilege, so I must  exterminate it immediately, by any means necessary, regardless of the cost, and no matter who may get hurt or killed in the crossfire."

The Jedi Order and their entire Thousand-Year tenure of total political and spiritual hegemony represent a complete failure to address the Problem and Nature of Evil.

Evil is clean - Evil is honest and pure and necessary, because it is in the nature of evil to use up, destroy and consume everything in it's path, including it's own kind, and eventually itself.

And in so-doing will hunt itself into extinction.

Left to its own devices, Evil will ALWAYS consume itself, because it must - if has to.

Which is exactly what happened to the ORIGINAL Sith a thousand years before the fall of the Old Republic - they were not defeated or hunted into extinction by the Jedi (although Jedi history may well claim that to be so) - far from it.

They exterminated themselves - largely through jealousy, War-Lording and far too much pointless duelling.

SARAH: 

What are you waiting for? 

DOCTOR: 

Just touch these two strands together and the Daleks are finished. 

Have I that right? 

SARAH: 

To destroy the Daleks? You can't doubt it. 

DOCTOR: 

Well, I do. You see, some things could be better with the Daleks. Many future worlds will become allies just because of their fear of the Daleks. 

SARAH: 

But it isn't like that...

DOCTOR: 

But the final responsibility is mine, and mine alone. 
Listen, if someone who knew the future pointed out a child to you and told you that that child would grow up totally evil, to be a ruthless dictator who would destroy millions of lives, could you then kill that child? 

SARAH: 

We're talking about the Daleks, the most evil creatures ever invented. 
You must destroy them. 
You must complete your mission for the Time Lords. 

DOCTOR: 

Do I have the right? 
Simply touch one wire against the other and that's it. 
The Daleks cease to exist. 
Hundreds of millions of people, thousands of generations can live without fear, in peace, and never even know the word Dalek. 

SARAH: 

Then why wait? 
If it was a disease or some sort of bacteria you were destroying, you wouldn't hesitate. 

DOCTOR: 

But I kill, wipe out a whole intelligent lifeform, then I become like them. I'd be no better than the Daleks. 

SARAH: 

Think of all the suffering there'll be if you don't do it. 

"I have been arrogant. And I apologise."

Jedi Councilor Anakin Skywalker

(NOT a Jedi Master...)

SUTEKH: 
Evil? Your Evil is my Good. 

I am Sutekh the Destroyer. 

Where I tread I leave nothing but dust and darkness. 

I find that good. 

DOCTOR: 

Then I curse you, Sutekh, in the name of all nature. 
You are a twisted abhorrence. Argh! 

SUTEKH: 

Any further insolence, Doctor, and I shall shred your nervous system into a million fibres. 

Is that understood?

"[Leo] Strauss believed it was for politicians to assert powerful and inspiring myths that everyone could believe in.

They might not be true, 
but they were necessary illusions. 

One of these was Religion;
the other was the Myth of the Nation."

"At the end of 1992, Bill Clinton won a dramatic victory.

But the NeoConservatives were determined to regain power.

And to do this, they were going to do to Bill Clinton what they had done to the Soviet Union.

They would transform The President of the United States into a fantasy Enemy - 

an image of evil that would make people realise the truth of the Liberal corruption of America..."

"Mentioning the name of Clinton provokes disgust and revulsion; the President has a heart that knows no words. 

A heart that kills hundreds of children, definitely knows no words. 

Our people in Arabia will send us messages with our words, because he does not understand words. 

If there is a message that I may send through you, I address the mothers of the American troops - to these mothers I say, 'If they are concerned for their sons, then let them object to the US Government's policy'"

Usama Bin Laden, 

CNN Interview, 

Khost, Afghanistan, 1997  

"So what are we gonna do?

If you want to change things, the first thing you have to change is yourself.

Because if you don’t change yourself, you will take on the world as if it is yourself – and fuck up. 

You will really fuck up, because you don’t understand your own dark side. 

If you don’t understand your own weird, shitty side.. if you don’t understand the fact that there’s someone in there who will kill your mother, if need be – if you can’t take that on; if you can’t take that on board and realise that Charles Manson and me and you are not much different; that John Wayne Gacy and me and you are not much different – except that he did it. 

Y’know, there’s those days when I’m gonna kill that motherfucker over there – but we don’t do it.

But it’s in us, and it’s there. 

And so much of this is denial. That we have no dark side. 

You know: the hippies, and those lovely people in the rave era who were all on ecstasy – they tried to pretend we have no dark side. 

And what happened was they got fucked up by their own dark side. 

As will ALWAYS happen.

So let’s kiss our Dark Sides; let’s f**k our Dark Sides. 

GET BEHIND ME, SATAN !!

Get him down there where he belongs. 

And he can tell us stuff. Y’know, that thing’s useful.

But above all: let’s become plex-creatures. 

Complex, superplex – be able to take on new personality traits; able to take on new ideas; able to adapt; able to extend our boundaries into what was previously the ‘enemy territory’ – until the point where we become what was once our enemy, and they are us, and there is no distinction."