Star Wars’ Civil War: A Philosophical, Religious, and Academic Irony

John E. Price
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.

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John E. Price

Academic and Trekkie. I talk about the politics of culture, review nerd stuff, and golf a lot. Co-host: @podmeandering, #TopFive, @folkwise13