Cass Sunstein: evaluation

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…He doesn’t tell Luke who his father is, right? He could’ve — he could’ve said that. Yeah. Another way to put it is that — I think you’re onto something actually very deep about the movies, which is that Yoda is nominally the wise person, but he makes a kind of fundamental error, which is, he thinks that detachment is good and attachment is bad. He’s the kind of Stoic or Buddhist figure in the movie, to which obviously the saga is deeply drawn. But the Buddhist and Stoic view is defeated in the end. Attachment wins out. That’s what brings balance to the Force, because Anakin can’t bear — and he’s called Anakin, by the way, in the script for the first time after he saves Luke by killing the emperor and being in his death scene. Then he’s called Anakin again. And it’s attachment. It’s attachment that restores him. So Yoda’s deeply wrong. I was just thinking about — you know, if the question is financial wisdom or food consumption or exercise, I don’t want to ask Luke or Leia or Han. If you ask Luke — I can’t even understand what R2-D2 is saying, and C-3PO is just going to get all anxious on me, so Yoda’s my guy. If you ask Luke, you’re going to get a weird chaste kiss with your sister, right? [laughter]…

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