Is Yoda Evil? Star wars and the Jesuit maxim: Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man.
Is Yoda the Kernel of Corruption in the Star Wars Universe? Star wars and the Jesuit maxim: Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man. Often referred to as the most misquoted and misrepresented maxims of all time the “Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man,” best situates itself in popular ideology as a process where the youth can be indoctrinated and thus corrupted by a belief system. Nazi ideology and religious cults have long been used as examples of such a claim resonating in practice, thereby, perhaps straying away from the noble intention Ignatius of Loyola may have been prescribing. But the George Lucas helmed Star Wars saga, long championed for its clear defining of good and evil can be read as reinforcing such a notion and it is the Jedi not the Sith who are the perpetrators of such corruption. Star Wars Episode 6 Revenge of the Sith has been rightfully heralded as a work of art by academics
