Star Wars’ Civil War: A Philosophical, Religious, and Academic Irony
4 min readJul 12, 2018
Beyond the stupid daily outrages and personal grudge matches, there’s a really interesting philosophical, quasi-religious question at work with Star Wars Fandom right now.
As most recently expounded by @radicalbytes, the problem specifically comes from a misreading of Return of the Jedi (the last universally-accepted canonical text) and facilitated by the decades of EU.