My guess is that when he made the original series he was a fairly serious Buddhist, and the Jedi are sort-of an advertisement for Buddhism.
Strange… excepting that the nature of the Light and Dark are reversed, and the movies make the Dark out to be inherently evil (when the reality was that both Vader and the Emperor represented perversions of Darkside use), the Star Wars movies are pretty good advertisements for Taoism.
Lucas seems to have gotten Zen Buddhism, Taoism, and some misconceptions about the nature of samurai, all entangled.
Oh, and Star Wars isn’t actually science fiction. It’s fantasy with a technological setting. I really wish people would get this sort of thing straight.
Lucas seems to have gotten Zen Buddhism, Taoism, and some misconceptions about the nature of samurai, all entangled.
Oh, and Star Wars isn’t actually science fiction. It’s fantasy with a technological setting. I really wish people would get this sort of thing straight.