Yoda Stayed In Power For Too Long...

[@GenerationTech]

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[@superbrian7997]

The Prequel Trilogy along with Clone Wars 7 Season Run forces us to recontextualized the Original Trilogy and perhaps the greatest casualty of this is Master Yoda. I respected and admired Master Yoda so much as a child but after seeing how he was during The Clone Wars and how The Jedi Order fell on his watch. We come to realize that he learned nothing from the failures of the Jedi and he takes no personal accountability for the Fall of the Jedi. He tries to train Luke Skywalker just as he trained a 1,000 other Jedi. Even though their training methods and values led to their demise. In spite of this Grandmaster Yoda makes no adjustments or modifications to the Jedi Training Program whatsoever. Even though Grandmaster Yoda had 20 years to think about where the Jedi Order went wrong and how to fix them. We come to see that Grandmaster Yoda is in a Purgatory of his own creation. Just as Darth Vader is. Grandmaster Yoda is the true Sith in Star Wars imho. He never changes. He never evolves. He always thinks he’s right. Whereas Palpatine continued to evolve and adapt. Emperor Palpatine managed to rival Grandmaster Yoda in the Force. Even though he only had a relationship with the Force for a few decades and Grandmaster Yoda had a relationship with the Force for many centuries!

[@Soloong_Gaybowzer]

Bloomberg has also spent countless tens of millions of dollars funding lobby groups whose sole purpose is to travel to different state legislators and petition to have their civilian populations disarmed and unable to defend themselves against criminals or a tyrannical government. By force if necessary. His funding group is called Mayors Against Illegal Guns. One of the subgroups they fund is Moms Demand Action. We've had to fight them here in Texas years ago to have the right to carry a firearm without paying the government for a permission slip.

[@JOECURR1488]

BLOOMBERG...🇮🇱

[@absolutleynotanalien8096]

One counter argument to tearm limits and simular things is that leaders will feal like they are in a hury to get things done that can't be properly done in their limited time leading to horable mistakes.

[@irishdc9523]

In defense of Bloomberg's limit on soda bottle sizes, Europe also has that to help curb excessive health issues to alleviate pressure on the health system. Thing is that Europe has a nationalised health system in one form or another, sugar taxes, serving limits, and public health programs that Europeans are willing to pay for

[@m1ro]

"The Jedi Order's problem is Yoda. No being can wield that kind of power for centuries without becoming complacent at best or corrupt at worst. He has no idea that it's overtaken him; he no longer sees all the little cumulative evils that the Republic tolerates and fosters, from slavery to endless wars, and he never asks, 'Why are we not acting to stop this?' Live alongside corruption for too long, and you no longer notice the stench. The Jedi cannot help the slaves of Tatooine but they can help the slavemasters." - Count Dooku

[@jameshagan2832]

He is arguably the greatest jedi ever but maybe instead of just staying on as grand master for like 700 yrs he should have bumped around taking different roles every 50 yrs or so. Would have had the benefit of forcing him to change with the times by seeing how the lower levels of the order are functioning and also allowing him to more directly provide his knowledge to other jedi rather then dictating from the top and hoping his knowledge makes it through the jedi bureaucracy and himself learning through what makes it up to him through the bureaucracy. They really missed the boat by not utilizing such a powerful but also long lived jedi better. Really could have helped the order evolve.

[@markholmes9276]

Damn

[@awddfg]

rip bozo when he died in episode 6 ngl

[@darthjekyll3648]

no one man can hold all that power-Random human man

[@showtime_tmc4854]

Yeaaa but Dooku was a hater

[@TheWarmachine375]

Palpatine: "The Council will decide your fate." Yoda: "The Council, I am!"

[@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl]

Am l. More likely

[@Starwarsfan066]

Replace Palpatine with Windu saying that.

[@TJDious]

Treason, it is, then

[@JaelaOrdo]

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” - Lao Tzu The Jedi order followed Yoda’s direction for so long that at a certain point there was no avoiding another purge. They’d become so comfortable in their position as the guardians of the Republic that they couldn’t see it dying in front of them. They were so sure the Sith were defeated permanently that they never prepared for their inevitable return. Arguably the order got what it deserved.

[@tba113]

Yeah. I'd go so far as to say that even without Palpatine pulling strings and egging on a civil war, the Jedi Order was too self-absorbed to recognize how arthritic and powerless to do anything other than levy taxes the Republic had become. A separatist movement of some kind was inevitable, regardless of whether influential people like Dooku and Sidious, or even powerful commercial interests like the various megacorps that governed the CIS, helped it along.

[@NuclearFridge1]

There's that scene cut from "Attack of the Clones" where Dooku tells Padme that the Republic can't be fixed. She rejects the idea, because she doesn't want to believe it. It's only when Palpatine is being cheered as the Emperor she realises that Dooku was right.

[@superbrian7997]

The Galactic Republic got what it deserved too

[@josueroberto7356]

@@tba113 You’re absolutely correct. That is the very reason why Palpatine achieved absolute power so seamlessly and masterfully. He wasn’t forcing anything, he wasn’t creating anything artificial. He was merely riding the tide of what was already inevitable.

[@darkwolfe6286]

Unfortunately it wasn't just the Jedi Order that paid," For their lack of vision." The rest of the Galaxy got front row seats.

[@arthurbriand2175]

Yoda probably didn't want to go probably because he felt guilty abandonning his council in what he knew were uncertain times. However he didn't see that the repect and praise he received were detrimental to the proper functionning of the Order. Yoda was so powerful and wise that no Master of the Order (the elected leader of the Council) could escape his shadow. Instead of advising and be the spiritual leader of the Order he essentially was running the big picture. Even decisive and strong-headed jedis like Mace Windu still revered him too much to ever disagree. The Grand Master position became over-bearing and tipped the scale. Yoda should have gone back to teaching the Younglings (which is clearly his favourite activity) and stayed as an advisor, maybe be consulted when someone needs his wisdom. There were plenty of Jedis would could have filled his role with wisdom and grace like Yaddle, Yarael Poof, Oppo Rancisis... And leaving the council was somthing you could do like Jocasta Nu who just returned to her archives after serving 20 years.

[@theostickle2604]

Guilt leads to the dark side, it dose.

[@daniels7907]

Beyond 200 years as Grandmaster, Yoda had spent upward of 600 years within the Order more generally. He was *very* out of touch with the realities of the galaxy outside of the Order. This was most obvious in his failure to question the matter of who *paid* the Kaminoans, KDY and Blastech for the clones and all the hardware to go with them. Because it didn't really matter who *supposedly* placed the orders, what mattered was who, exactly, was *paying* for it. Especially once it was revealed that Jango Fett, the genetic donor for the clone army, was also a direct employee of Count Dooku! Yoda was too concerned with preserving the Jedi Order's place a state-favored religion and not with their alleged role as "guardians of peace and justice". In AotC, Obi-Wan actually found all of the evidence needed to implicate Palpatine in the assassination attempts on Padme and the illegal creation of the clone army (which began around the time that Palpatine became Chancellor). But because the evidence was all mundane, rather than supernatural insight from the Force, Yoda ignored it. But then, Yoda also ignored it when Mace Windu explicitly told him and the Council: "I sense a plot to destroy the Jedi. The Dark Side of the Force surrounds the Chancellor". Yoda was literally more concerned about the Jedi going down a dark path than he was that the *Head of State* might *already* be acting on behalf of the Dark Side!

[@treelym]

Love how you used a real life example to show how power can corrupt. I think we all could learn a little from Yoda's example.

[@samuelstephen8147]

Another example would be Muammar Gaddafi, a charismatic soldier who seized power in Libya. 42 years later, this shell of man would be killed by his own people. He lost all of his great strengths from being in power for too long. He should given power to one of his sons and retired, but he didn't and paid the price.

[@lpg12338]

@@samuelstephen8147 The main reason he was killed, is because he tried to get off the standard U.S. Dollar, and bring the Gold Dinar in to play.

[@samuelstephen8147]

@@lpg12338 That may be one of the reasons, but if you just look at the man himself from where he started his rule, that was a different man than the one who was killed on film. At first he was charismatic and clearly beloved. He drank his own Kool-Aid and believed that he was invincible (just look at his clothes). He erratically started supporting pretty much every terrorist organization under the sun and bears responsibility for the Lockerbie Bombing. He also was oblivious to how his people actually felt about him. He thought they all loved him. His fatal flaw was that he got to paranoid. He made speeches denouncing Libyans who rebelled as "dogs who would be hunted down". This was when the UN intervened and placed a no-fly zone over Libya. Before that Gaddafi was winning in the civil war. After he was captured and before he was killed, he insisted that he was their leader, further showing his obliviousness. All this to say that my point is that just like Yoda in the video, Gaddafi also got complacent during his long rule and he and Libya suffered because of it.

[@nathanieljackson5554]

Yoda makes a comment in Episode II that the Dark side is difficult to detect and so never realized how much it had already corrupted the Jedi order. Their role as peacekeepers for the Republic was a mistake.

[@jameshagan2832]

It was hard go detect because the dark jedi didn't want too be detected, they set everything up for the previous 2k yrs (?) to ensure that so the jedi just assume it's a fact. Before the rule of 2 it was probably very easy to detect when they had thousands of sith plus many more regular dark jedi and were out in the open

[@FlymanMS]

Yoda is amazingly inept as a political leader. And there’s really no good reason for this besides “stuff must happen because Lucas wrote it so”. KOTOR2 explored Jedi Order’s problems and their leaders’ downfall much better

[@timonsolus]

The Jedi Order was never intended to have any kind of political role, therefore its leader was never expected to have any political skills. The Grand Master of the Jedi Order has a role more in common with a Pope than with a President.

[@jameshagan2832]

He wasn't a political leader, or at least wasn't supposed to be, he was the leader of a religious/diplomatic/military order that was supposed to be kept at arms length from the Republic bureaucracy. Not really a real world comparison I can make because historically those 3 were kept separate but maybe the role of the church in middle ages gov and Yoda was the pope (that's either a great comparison or an awful one or maybe both? I can't tell lol)

[@1000nod]

@@jameshagan2832 you are thinking of the knight Templar

[@jameshagan2832]

@@1000nod yes! Excellent point

[@akdele5]

@@timonsolus so yoda was a child predator?

[@surferdude4487]

Fear of fear and fear of the dark side made the Jedi vulnerable to Palp's attack. Yes, fear can lead to the dark side, but ignorance of the dark side is the dark side.

[@christofthedead]

I just wanted to comment to provide some commentary for your comment

[@josueroberto7356]

“What you deny submits you”, as Carl Jung said.

[@surferdude4487]

ROFLMAO! Happy New-Year!

[@williamozier918]

This is why the most important line in Star Wars isn't "No, I am your father". It's when Yoda said to Dooku, "...my old apprentice." This was then actually brought back around by ghost Yoda's speech to Luke in Last Jedi. Yoda finally passes on the lesson he never learned; teach your failures, don't hide from them.

[@MR.LMR1996]

Dooku had a point. Can't remember whether it was a video off this channel or someone else's, but I remember skimming a video around a month ago about Dooku, and the host of that video read a quote spouted by Dooku. "One cannot be in a position of power for so long without becoming corrupt or complacent." That's what Yoda was. He was complacent. And sometimes a good yet complacent leader can be just as bad if not worse then a corrupt leader depending on their choices.

[@richards3648]

I sometimes wonder if the Jedi's views on attachments (which I think they took to an unhealthy extreme that played a significant role in Anakin's downfall) became so central to their beliefs because of Yoda. Yoda seems to be the chief proponent if this idea. I've had this notion in my head that he embraces this philosophy as defense mechanism against for dealing with the fact that he outlived what must have been countless Jedi, most of which he would have known since they were very young.

[@jagnestormskull3178]

I got that vibe too, that it was easier for a 900 year old being to let go of attachments than someone who lived a human lifetime.

[@jacobrobinson787]

In most media especially in regards to the games, the biggest threats the Jedi faced were from the Order itself. You could pick from a dozen examples - Exar Kuun, Revan and Malak to name just a a specific few - and could see the trend. The Order fell because of its most glaring flaw: shortsightedness. Had the Council not locked off studies of the Dark side to other impressionable Jedi then perhaps history might have changed. But what we got is the encompassing motif of: Dark side bad, Light side good. It was easier to accept as a kid; as an adult, you have to really go back and think about the perspectives of these Jedi and Sith.

[@jagnestormskull3178]

I agree with you mostly, but Revan knew what he was doing. Revan sacrificed his soul to lead the galaxy on a Golden Path, one that the Jedi would never understand.

[@TheWarmachine375]

Yoda stayed in power at the Jedi Council while Palpatine stayed in power at the Senate. Mood Kindred.

[@timonsolus]

The Jedi Order was never a democracy. The Republic was (until Palpatine turned it into a dictatorship, the way Erdogan is doing in Turkey). That’s the difference.

[@jameshagan2832]

@@timonsolus republic was more of an oligarchy then a democracy, why do the corp sectors get represented in the Senate? Might as well have jedi, and hutts represented in the sen .

[@LumVaughan]

Great review, however, in Yoda's defense, in the case of Anakin, it was him that decided that Anakin needed to train a Padawan and while Yoda was worried that Anakin would become attached to her, the responsibility of training Ahsoka kept Anakin more focused. Had she not left the Jedi order, I think she might have kept him from going over to the dark side and perhaps changing everything. Yoda wasn't arrogant, I think he believed he was doing the right thing and he was tormented by worries as we see in TCW when him and R2-D2 went off on that 'spiritual journey'. The big problem is: Who amongst the Jedi was wise enough to lead it during the turmoil period at the end of the Clone Wars? Mace Windu was the obvious choice, but he struggled to control his own feelings sometimes and his use of Form VII as a Lightsaber fighting style put him a bit too close to the dark side of the Force (though it did help him nearly take out Palpatine). The other council members seemed about as blinded as Yoda was to Sidious' identity and I'm not sure any of them could have done any better than Yoda did. He was certainly flawed though, and your use of Bloomberg as a comparison was brilliant.

[@charlesray9674]

🤔 But wasn't Yoda and the council that, more or less, abandoned Ahsoka which caused her to quit? The only person who didn't doubt her was Anakin which helped lead him down the path of the darkside.

[@LumVaughan]

@@charlesray9674 Yes, but Yoda had reservations about abandoning Ahsoka and later in the story arc where he went on that spiritual journey with R2D2, he had a dream/nightmare where his subconscious mind tried to deal with his concern over her fate and later on, Anakin's fate as well. I think he knew that the decision about abandoning Ahsoka caused several problems that would help send things spiraling out of control. In Rebels, there is a brief scene where, in a Jedi Temple, Ahsoka sees a Force projection of Yoda and though they don't say anything, the scene has a lot of emotion in it. Clearly Yoda regretted the council not standing by her.

[@charlesray9674]

@@LumVaughan But if Yoda had sided with her in the beginning, the rest of the council would have as well. Anyways, I always thought that Yoda knew that betraying her, he was saving her from the stagnation of the Jedi Order and she would had a better chance of saving Anakin from the darkside. He knew that the "Chosen One" wouldn't have necessarily saved the Order, but would led it to the path of cleansing. There were too many in the Order who were basically thinking they were better than average person (Ahsoka discovered how most of the public view the Jedi during her exile.)

[@TJDious]

On the flip side, it's possible that Yoda's leadership strengthened the Jedi since the last wars to the point where the previous Sith were unable to even conceive of attacking them. It's hard to tell since our knowledge of that era is spotty at best. "Change, the order could not, because let it, I did not."

[@josephjohnson5766]

The Jedi council would have been better off if they had term limits for the council. They would also have been better off if the council represented the Jedi order better. Not just having masters on the council but having knights and padawans as well to provide their groups a voice and to allow for different view points on things. In episode 2 Yoda did mention how amazing the mind of a child was after all.

[@jameshagan2832]

Having padawans on the council would be like having college students on a college board of trustees or whatever, actually not an awful idea if they are serious. Nevermind good point

[@TheHiddenFear]

The council was set up in three different categories Five liftetime members, who would serve till they died Four long term members Three short term members However, we dont know how long each of these things lasted, obviously Master Yoda and Master Yaddle are both members of a very long lived species, so is it decided by their lifetime, or by human lifetime, or what? What consists of a short term member? In the ten years, a fair chunk of time by human measurement, only two Council members had changed, Yaddle and Yarael Poof had been replaced by Shaak Ti and Coleman Trebor respectively. As such they only had two new members in what was essentially a nepotism breeding ground. Yoda had trained the majority if not all of them at some point, Mace had trained Depa, and Yoda had also trained Ki, making the top three of the council all essentially an old boys club, with no room for disagreement, as it would essentially be blasphemy to speak out against Yoda alone, let alone Yoda, Mace and Ki. Had the roles been swapped, had Yoda not been a lifetime member, things perhaps could have been better, Mace and the others didnt help, but a lot of the downfall of the Jedi falls suarely at Yoda's feet, as he couldnt change or adapt, to the realities of the situation, to the role the Jedi should play, or to the fact that the Sith had changed, and as it was run as an old money boys club, nobody else could stop it either, without overcoming one big, well small obstacles...Master Yoda.

[@garrisonmoncher5461]

@@jameshagan2832 I forgot what number it was in the "Evil Overlord list". 'I will have an ordinary 5 year old as one of my advisers, if they find a flaw in my plans I will not use that plan.'

[@NeuroDeviant421]

I've always thought that the last thing a civilization needs is a council of knight/ wizards to make military and political decisions. The Jedi work best in a "ronin" paradigm. Small numbers isolated from larger society and unaffiliated with armies or politicians.

[@creativeconciousness5492]

Palatine was spot on when he told Yoda he was too blinded by arrogance. Even when they knew Dooku was responsible for the creation of the clones, Yoda even told Obi wan it was a bad idea to sweep it under the rug and continue to lead them and they did it anyway. Look at how they handled the situation with Asoka, they still had too much pride to admit they made a mistake. I do believe they should have taken Dooku's views more seriously when he was a Jedi master.

[@erikgarrow6781]

In a way, Yoda, much like everyone else was a product of the Ruusan Reformation changes. Which Yoda was younger than, so yoda in some way inherited that, and his whole service things seemed to have worked. While yoda wasn't necessarily a traditionalist, noticing something going on, his position, his experience, and the dominance of thought brought by the end of the Sith wars blinded him to other paths. Something he didn't realize until it's too late. Which, explains why yoda disappeared into the swamp after the prequels, personally painfully aware of his own failures, and the deep role he had in the Order which only amplified said failures.

[@adampender3685]

The Jedi had also turned their back on prophecy and their ability to see the future, they would even send Jedi that had foresight to the Citadel. If they hadn't abandoned such a power, then they might have been able to figure out enough to defeat the sith.

[@BenjaminDavis104]

I love this video and the topic is so interesting! The way I see it in the current canon is that it was more the people around Yoda who caused the stagnation in response to Yoda. You made great points in this vein of thinking.

[@Matt-pn1ce]

Yoda and the High council made a huge error in not invoking the Knightfall protocol, as soon as the Sith Threat of Maul occurred Yoda should have activated this and sent hundreds of Jedi spread across the galaxy towards the unknown regions ideally and to go underground. And never to return until the high council signal the sith threat is over , abandon the Republic to its fate , sidious would be forced to reveal himself at some point and couldn't defeat all the Jedi.

[@kernowpictures2002]

He stayed in power for too long well obviously

[@cookingonthego9422]

One smuck with an apprentice and a cape destroyed a galaxy-spanning organization. I think the force was very aware of what happened and was simply ok with it.

[@Bobtree6853]

The jedi were stuck between a rock and hard place IMO. They have this great power with no realistic way to use it other than to maintain balance in the force. They never should have aligned themselves with the republic senate. It put them in a position where they would inevitably abandon core fundamentals of the jedi code in the interest of who ever is in power in the Senate.

[@PhycoKrusk]

There is a phrase that I try to live by that the Jedi would have benefited from: "Don't ignore your shadow." We all have dark recesses of our psyche that we don't like to think about. You must never indulge your shadow; you'll never achieve anything but disaster by feeding those darker impulses. But if you deny that you have such impulses - if you ignore your shadow - then you will be ill-equipped to recognize when they begin to creep forth. Little by little, the darkness will creep further forward, until all your thoughts are consumed by it. _That_ is how monsters are born.

[@cindya4951]

Thanks!

[@stischer47]

Thank you for your video. I have always had trouble with Yoda from the very first Star Wars in 1977. And we didn't really understand how old he was and how long he'd been Grand Master. We are seeing the same situation in our world now.

[@DCUniverse816]

Well it’s not Yoda’s fault that the Jedi had developed such a rigid belief system. In fact, he like all the other Jedi who he both trained and served with was practically born into that system

[@markusgorelli5278]

No excuse. We have all worked in organizations of one kind or another and recognized that this or that was dysfunctional- - either the procedure was bad or there was an idiot in charge. While few might have the knowledge on how to fix it, we all have the ability to recognise it. When you are at the top, it could be difficult to see when cracks are showing up in your organization. Or, if your organization seems to be running well, it might be hard to accept that maybe it wasn't really. The librarian refused to accept even the remote possibility that there was information missing in the archives and didn't even consider consulting with someone to check if there was in fact a big gaping hole in their star charts. With that kind of attitude, who knows what other hacks were going on without her caring.

[@αστρον]

He actually became a jedi as a 100 years old male.

[@ffnendhgrgd]

The clips you used here helped me realize that John Williams really likes to tell the audience how to feel

[@Cookie12670]

Alan, your channel is great. I love your thoughts and your explanations on those thoughts. Your love for Star Wars is always evident but you look at things in that world as unbiased as possible. That is appreciated. Happy New Year.! I look forward to your 2023 content.

[@rjshadow4321]

he couldn't change because he was set in his ways and with everyone worshiping him he never even thought anything was wrong.

[@JacobAAllen]

I agree you are 100% right. If someone is in a position of power for to long they grow to comfortable and will make mistakes and they will eventually become part of the problem they are fighting against.

[@darienevans6229]

in the jedi council there were term limits on most seats but Yoda held one of the seats that was life long. with a human life span that could work. but with Yodas long live it basically became a dictatorship.

[@4891MR]

Pretty clear parallels exist between Prequel-era Yoda in some of these respects and the impression of George Lucas that eventually circulated among critical fans. Ironic if he was not self-aware in creating a portrayal of leadership short on self-awareness.

[@lavryadam4774]

I think to answer that question we need an auto biography of Yoda, to have a deeper understanding as to where he was coming from. My personal theory is that Yoda passively surrounded the galaxy to the darkside, because the force was out of balance toward the lightside, and the informations that you gave about everything that Yoda did since he became the head Jedi master reinforce that belief for me! The Jedi of old should never have banned the darkside to be used and being learned! And maybe, if I wanted to give Yoda some leeway, I'd say everything that he did was for future generations to maybe reconcile what the ancient Jedi decided to split from each other, and funny enough, while "preaching" about "balance", lol... I thought that's what The Last Jedi was going to be about. Luke fulfilling, or continuing the reunification process between the dark and the light.

[@rodolphendessabeka8721]

The Force is in Balance only when the light side rules supreme. About 100 years before the events of the Phantom Menace the Sith managed to put the Force into imbalance by increasing their power and clouding the Jedi's judgment and abilities. That's why the Force created a chosen one to destroy the Sith.

[@siovgaming2674]

Part of Yoda’s decision to jump head first into the clone wars was likely the high republic itself, that conflict essentially established the precedent of Jedi leading the charge in wartime and changed plenty of Jedi practices that led to the more orthodox driven order we see in the prequels.

[@ee-ef8qr]

Also Sidious may have used that to sink the jedi's reputation even more, combined with Dokou's treason the Jedi sitting out may have tipped the scales in Palpatines favor.

[@MuchWhittering]

On the topic of term limits, this is discussed by Anakin and Padmé in Episode 2. Padmé points out that it was good that term limits forced her out of office as Queen. Because sometimes people need change, even if they don't necessarily want change.

[@supremefankai5480]

Even if Yoda hadn't been Grandmaster at the time of the Clone Wars, because he had moulded Jedi thought for 800 years, he had practically set them on the path to destruction no matter what, with those who thought even slightly different being marginalized. Jedi should have been constantly renewing themselves with the master-apprentice chain, ironically just like the Sith but Yoda was constantly inserting himself as a master to any master, creating a rigid hierarchy and cult of personality without realising it.

[@recoverybynight3406]

FANTASTIC VIDEO. Really. This is your wheelhouse: relating real world events, politics, and policy to the galaxy far far away that we all love. Keep it up brotha! Looking forward to your content in 2023!

[@superhooper9490]

"The opposite of order isn't chaos... It is stagnation" lorgar primarch of the word bearers!

[@maxpower3990]

Did you just quote the whining man-child who ruined the Imperium. Everything that happened in 40k including the Tyranid invasion is Logar’s fault.

[@clonescope2433]

I would say yoda was in power for too long but a lot of his decisions were made with good intentions but sadly a lot of the time the road to hell is paved with good intentions which in his case ultimately led to the destruction of the order you love so much and the deaths of thousands of Jedi that he himself trained at one point

[@mattd2026]

Very cool to learn you worked in new York media! Man you've lived a crazy life

[@arthurbriand2175]

Could you do a video on the functionning of the Jedi council please. How are member selected, elected? Can they be expelled or impeached? How do votes and deliberation happen? How do they communicate and interact with lower members of the Order? How are they perceived by Jedi knights? What are the responsabilities of Grand Master and Master of the Order?

[@jameshagan2832]

I know there are other councils within the order, isn't just the jedi council we see. I assume they play a role in selecting who serves on the main council and how the jedi as a whole function and is run on a day to day basis. There must be a way to remove jedi from the council because we know council members have fallen to the dark side, pretty sure they wouldn't just let them continue to sit on the council although that could make for some pretty epic council session. "How do we handle this this crisis on planet x where this group of fanatics have taken over and are slaughtering their enemies?" Dark side councilmember: maybe we should consider slaughtering the rouge government and enslaving their followers? Rest of council: here we go again (eye roll), always jumping right too the slaughtering and enslaving. Dark jedi: ok well what would you all do Jedi councilmember: maybe we should continue to do nothing? Rest of council: yes that always works itself out in the end Dark jedi: makes mental note to take followers to slaughter and enslave these ppl since the jedi clearly don't want to get involved in any way. Fast forward 3 months Whatever happened with that situation on planet x Dark jedi: it worked itself out as always (big evil grin) Rest of council: another success story!

[@OUTSIDER40]

May the force be with you

[@a1pha_star]

Ayo, I love your Star Wars content. Can't wait for your Andor Season 2 coverage!

[@wrathsinful6389]

I feel that if Qui-gon joined them council he could've been the voice they needed to steer the from their demise. The fact that they didn't believe his and Obi-wans account of Darth Maul show their lack of imagination and complacency.

[@jameshagan2832]

He would have been ignored and disregarded for all his crazy conspiracy theories

[@CloneScavengerVulpin8389]

Qui-gon also wasn't interested in a position of power.

[@Draylin41]

Feel like the council would have needed to be more diverse as a whole, Qui-gon wouldn't have the sway all on his own. However, there was other Jedi that grumbled about the way the council ran things besides just him. If a couple of them made their way to the council before the Clone Wars started, they may have had a chance for some real reform. Too many of them were unwilling to even attempt such a rise in station, thinking it wasn't worth their time when they could be dealing out their own bit of justice in places far from the council's influence.

[@cornonjacob]

I feel like noting Yoda's total demeanor change in the less than 20 years btwn episodes 3 and 4. Idk whether that says more about the the position of grand master, the trauma of order 66, or something about Yoda himself, but definitely something to consider

[@justinweber4977]

The Order did TRY to prevent this situation from happening in a way. The Council itself is supposed to be composed of a combination of 'short term' Council members, 'Long term' members and a couple who maintain their seats 'For Life'. The problem is what happens when a 'for life' council member happens to come from an extremely long-lived species like Yoda did.

[@IronScytheGamers]

here is some controversy for you.... Yoda absolutely gave Anakin the perfect advise.. had Anakin listened to what yoda meant when he said learn to let go of all you fear to lose.. had he done that Padm'e wouldnt have died, she died because he F'd up and wasnt listening

[@human151]

Yoda is rich in wisdom but blind to what is in front of him. It seems a lot of very intelligent people have this fault.

[@garyjust.johnson1436]

You are wise beyond your years.

[@captainfach]

How are you so young but so wise? Where do I go to learn the things that you know about the world? You're so insightful with real-world examples of governments and people and I am always awestruck because I never knew anything basically that you're talking about and it's always very interesting and informative

[@martinrazingar8335]

Interesting point you made, definetly plosuable, good work

[@isaackim7675]

Yoda, “A Padawan you have, Qui-Gonn, impossible to take a second.” Qui-Gonn, “Didn’t you broke the Jedi Code when you took in my former Master Dooku?”

[@DMSProduktions]

Break.

[@variable7833]

I never thought about it but those are all excellent points.

[@theostickle2604]

Yes, Yoda was on the Jedi council to long. When you think about how old he was, how long he'd been a Jedi, and the large volume of people he had become attached to or close to that were dead and gone by this time. Maybe this contributed to his decision to let the events play out the way they did. Remember, Yoda had the ability to see what was yet to come. He may have already played out hundreds of simulations in his head/with the force and decided to let things play out in a certain way to avoid something much worse. Take note of Yodas' expressions when engaging Skywalker or when Skywalker is called the chosen one. What did he say to Qui-gone (I know I spelt that wrong, correct me if you must). There is just no way Yoda didn't see it coming, unless the Chancler was so powerful he could blind and confuse even Yoda.

[@rodolphendessabeka8721]

Yet he chose to fight the Chancellor/Emperor in Episode 3 and lost. That is when he understood that only the chosen one could destroy the Sith. No one else.

[@refugeehugsforfree4151]

Imagine being told to ignore slavery but also being told to fight alongside slaves and thinking you're with the "Goods guys" and not being manipulated. Yoda had the biggest Ego ever.

[@yungo1rst]

The council could have been rotated more often with a certain term limit.could try out the sea people ways from wheel of time where they are sent to the lowest ranks to rise up again. probably more often for the longer lived masters like yoda. this way they can get the perspective of the regular jedi.

[@creed8712]

I was shook to the core when I popped open a high republic reference book and learned Yarrel poof and Opal Rancississsisssisiss were over 200 years old

[@hotcorndog5029]

Love the Video. Happy New Years everyone!!! 🎉🎉🎉

[@eren34558]

I would say good point, you have made.

[@macieyid]

The scene in which Palpatine whines about the thought of losing Padme is a straightforward slap to Yoda's cheek. The little green moron gives Palpatine a suspicious look, and then... nothing. I mean -- is there a more obvious way to admit he's trippin' on the dark side than that? Ridiculous.

[@seanhewitt603]

I was raised to be dispassionate, logical and reserved, but I can relate to how mislead one can be even with emotional controls in place. You must become Balanced between logic and love. This is the only safe passage through life.

[@rarewhiteape]

Good or bad you have to admire Yoda’s biggest skill and that’s education. He was a true master at student focussed or student led learning, and that’s something worth fostering. True masters don’t just drill information into a learner’s brain, they use the uniques that allow those brains to discover the answers for themselves. One thing that this video doesn’t touch upon is that the Jedi’s path was obscured by the dark side, which clouded their judgement and prevented them from being able to make clear decisions. The Jedi we see between episodes I and III were ones who were fighting an unknown battle against a clandestine enemy. Even with overt revelations (Dooku telling Obi Wan all he needed to know on Geonosis) they couldn’t act without verifiable information to guide their path because the force was essentially blocked off from them being able to form long term strategic plans. Their command to trust in the Force was short sighted because the very Force itself was corrupted to begin with. Well that’s all I have to say for today, my name is Mick and remember my allegiance is to dolphins. To the dolphin empire.

[@barryauguste9734]

You are so right, in all you say Alan. If any of us had been in young Anikin's place, after leaving everything he had known, and been dismissively rejected, I think most of us would have stormed out saying, " Fine, f**k the lot of you - I'm getting the first shuttle back to Tatooine!" Just imagine, they refused 'The Chosen One'.....that's like refusing to sign Pele....!

[@AlLeBlanc-cb5vz]

Agree that Yoda is out of touch with reality related to the function and duties of the Jedi council. But it also seems based on what you said that he has been doing this for 200 years. Once he became the grandmaster, he actually let the other council members follow all the going on, in the greater Republic and more, and I lo the position where he meditates on the force. And not really pay attention to the world around him. I don’t know a lot about Star Wars but have always been a fan. I want quite a bit and have enjoyed them greatly. Thank you for all the work that you do to bring them to me and who follow you , Wulf

[@largmac1911]

Thank you for all that you do.

[@BoandDebbieMulder]

Two decisions Yoda made that I never understood. 1) When faced with the possibility that a Sith was in control of the Senate (per Obi-Wan as told by Dooku) Yoda decided it was too dangerous to make any kind of move and that the Jedi "had no choice but to play into the unknown Sith's hands. I forget the exact line in the film 2) In the last episode Seadon 6 of Clone Wars TV Show, Yoda was shown (on Mortis) the destruction of the Jedi and the rise of an evil Sith. He flew back to the Jedi Temple and DID NOTHING. Yodas passivity destroyed the order.

[@stuartgrier5605]

Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely!

[@CHMichael]

That was the best argument for term limits I have heard in a long time ( ever?)

[@Starwarsfan066]

I think the grand Master role should have had term limits. But based on their species. Human - 2 terms 5 years each Wookies - 1 term 10 years each Kaldore (Plo Koons species) 2 terms 10 years each Yodas species - 1 term 50 years.

[@yoda998]

Wookies and yodas species having 1 term makes no sense.

[@Starwarsfan066]

@Yoda there were just examples. Thinking was because of their longer life spans but that's not the point. The point is there needs to be term limits set on individual species.

[@jnort95]

Great video Allen !

[@qliphalpuzzle5453]

I can’t say “Defense against the Dark Arts” class is the best example to use, since most (except the werewolf) were vessels of dark lords, evil magicians using polypotions or totalitarian magician supremacists.

[@ObligedUniform]

And an incompetent buffoon and a real dick (even if ultimately on their side). If anything that is an example of the other extreme for sure.

[@travisgames6608]

Mainly the Jinx Voldermort placed on the position. The Drumstran school in Russia literally taught Dark Arts.

[@thetobi583]

It was a good thing Yoda was wearing the brown robes when he went to fight Papa Palpatine...

[@itsjohnnyr8560]

I respect the hustle Allen.

[@brianm7287]

The Jedi Council didn't flip. Qui-Gon was about to take him as a Padawan, over which the Council had no say, so long as he didn't have another.

[@hellfish2309]

Ancient Antiques: (sitting in Luthen’s gallery) Yoda: Careful how you speak to me, you should be younglings; 10 of your lifetimes, I have lived

[@chrisd2051]

I remember the soda ban. I went to school with some Westchester kids and we set up smuggling rings essentially.

[@zstreet3]

Someone has finally said it. For a couple years now I’ve had the opinion that yoda was one of the worst Jedi grand masters ever. He allowed the fall of the order and failed to make the changes needed that might’ve saved them. In the end turning the Jedi into republic lap dogs. I wonder how many of their missions of “peacekeeping” were actually just protecting profits for the corrupt republic senate.

[@CloneScavengerVulpin8389]

Well yoda probably had the most comfortable chair in the council chamber.

[@ADobbin1]

Was it yoda who made the decisions or was it a group decision where the rest overruled yoda? The jedi council was larger than just yoda and I'm sure there was some faction thinking going on within the order. Think qui-gon and Mace wanting to go in different directions. Yoda seemed to spend most of the time giving council rather than making decisions. The problem is we don't really get a real look at the workings of the jedi council. We have snap shots at specific points.

[@thefdvproduction]

Anakin probably felt as though he was never free from slavery in a way because despite being freed from tattooine, he’s still shackled by the Jedi Order and Code

[@mrbojangles8133]

some place in the prequel trilogy Yoda looked at Palpy in a way that almost suggested that he feels something is somehow off with Palpy but wasn't quite sure what

[@arthurbriand2175]

Are there Jedi Masters that study other things than the force or child soldier training? Are there Jedi Historians, Law professors, physicists, chemists? With different departments like an Earth univerisity.

[@andrewlyon4495]

Yeah, that would be the Jedi service corps. Primarily doctors, archeologists, farmers, and librarians. There were also Jedi detectives and the Temple Guard.

[@Squiddy-go1du]

@@andrewlyon4495 I’m pretty sure most of those are Jedi rejects. (Except for temple guards)

[@buzzmooney2801]

Spot on. Yoda was in charge so long, the entire order came to treat his philosophies, which were as flawed as any oerson's, as Holy Writ. Palpatine could never have achieved his objectives, if Qui-Gonn Jinn or Mace Windu had been Grand Master.

[@AlLeBlanc-cb5vz]

Also agree with the concept that Mayor Bloomberg overtime went from creative, thinking to unrealistic, thinking, and how that relates to Yoda. You made a different video kind of related to the same topic in that not only did the Jedi council, but Yoda himself failed Anakin Skywalker, resulting in his turn to the dark side. Also, you point out that they did not really pay attention to Anakin‘s needs, and the struggles that he faced as a young child because he had known some emotional attachment to his mother. I would simply add to this, that they could not figure this out the majority of them had been taken from their families as infants before any emotional attachments could be formed, and therefore they couldn’t relate to Anakin, unless they had had similar experiences And emotional attachments from the beginning. Truly, the only person who could have understood him was Palpatine, as he had grown up with emotional attachments to his father, and his lack of aggressiveness. Which seems to me, just fueled his anger and let him to the dark side as well. Anyway, again, thank you for all the work that you do and bringing this content to myself and others Who enjoy all things, Star Wars. Wulf

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

🎆🎇 HAPPY NEW YEAR 🎇🎆

[@BOABModels]

Wow, so you were basically Peter Parker?

[@Joshua-uw7wm]

His "short" lived whatever you said that was great 😃

[@jakecook2375]

You made an excellent point about being in the same position for too long and it could easily be applied to non-elected bureaucrats that control many of the most important decisions made in this country.

[@davideberhartii6028]

So many parallels between Yoda and the leadership in the Netflix series Arcane.

[@seb2750]

The events in AoTC was an accident which worked out well in favor of Palpy. When Obi managed to follow Jango to Genosis, it started a chain reaction which led to them being captured and having the Jedi take command of an army to rescue them. By taking the army, they are already in command of the GAR. Everyone in the senate just went with the flow and left it to the Jedi since they are already in control as the CIS already started to threaten the republic. Ol Palpy must be laughing in glee at this happening before he even had time to legislate the senate giving control of the GAR to the Jedi and having the Jedi direct war operations.

[@fabulousbandit5193]

you are a really cool guy, ya know that

[@charlesray9674]

Another great vid! However, it was the Whills of the Force that keep Yoda in power. If he wasn't to be the Grandmaster at that time, he would have been replaced.

[@theawesomeman9821]

Term limits sound like a good idea for a Jedi council.

[@Macky4941]

I think if Yoda trained Anakin things would of been muuuuch different. Mace Windu, Yoda and Anakin would of approached Palps together where mace would probably still gets tossed out the window and there Palps and Anakin would defeat and kill Yoda. In turn Luke and Leia might of become dark just like their father, maybe the three of them defeat Palps to rule the Galaxy together as family.

[@Brendan-4653]

Happy new year