if you would join us hey everyone and welcome to another series where we're
going to be covering some of the books and today's book is gonna be shatter
point now this is a book all about mace windu and it takes place between episode
2 and episode 3 there's tons of really interesting stuff
in here so let's get started with today's video which is gonna be about
Yoda's first lesson for mace windu now i'm gonna first start off by saying
perhaps Anakin's greatest weakness and strength was the same thing his
attachment towards those that he loved now attachment is a very powerful
emotion that can form wonderful positive bonds but if it becomes too intense it
can lead to obsession and if someone can wield the force that can very quickly
become especially dangerous as we all know with where it took him there for
attachment can easily become obsession and obsession can easily turn to madness
and from there we can say you'll end up in the dark side
so because of how dark and destructive the consequences of attachment can be it
is the very first lesson the Jedi attempt to teach their infant younglings
including baby mace windu the following is an excerpt from Matthew Stover's
legends book Star Wars shatter point mace windu has returned to the planet of
his origin Haroon cow in his search for his former student now this is a Jedi
Master who may have fallen to the dark side on her last mission to his
homeworld as he returns to her own Cal for the third time in his life counting
when he was born may struggles with his attachment towards his former apprentice
so he begins to think back to the very first lesson that Yoda taught him let's
read the excerpt and then we can talk about the soul planet of the al-haram
arun kal is the name given to it in the language of the indigenous human
population the Karuna it translates to basic as above the clouds from space the
world appears to be oceanic with only a few green top islands rising from a
restless multicolored see but this is deceptive the sea that these islands
punctuate is not liquid but an ocean of heavier-than-air toxic gases which bloom
endlessly from the planets innumerable active volcanoes only on the
mountaintops and vatos can oxygen-breathing life survived
and not on many of these unless they rise far above the cloud see they're
vulnerable Tarun cows unpredictable winds especially during her own cows
brief winter when the fuck is bacala the down storm blows the wind can whip the
thick cloud sea high enough to scour lowlands free of oxygen breathers within
hours its capital palak baa is located on the
sole inhabitant landmass the plateau known as the Karuna highland and is the
largest permanent settlement on this primarily jungle covered planet the
indigenous humans live in small salmon Ematic tribal groups called gauche and
avoid the settlements which are maintained by offworlders of a wide
variety of species the Karuna lump all offworlders and settled folk under the
somewhat contemptuous category of balawi or in other words down folk there's a
long history of unorganized local conflicts this doesn't help I can't fit
what I know of her wound kal into a guidebook description too much of what I
know is the color of the Sun flash and the smell of the wind off grandfather's
shoulder the silken ripple of a grassers undercoat through my fingers the hot
fierce sting of an act dogs force touch I was born on her own cow far back in
the Highland I am a full-blooded Karuna a hundred generations of my ancestors
breathe that air and drank that water ate the fruit of that soil and were
buried deep within it have returned only once thirty-five standard years ago but
I have carried that world with me the feel of it the power of its storms the
up swirling tangle of its jungles the thunder of its peaks but it is not home
home is coarsened home is the Jedi Temple I have no recollection of my
infancy among the corona my earliest memories of Yoda's kindly smile and
enormous gentle eyes close above me it is still vivid I don't know how old I
might have been but I am certain I could not walk perhaps I was too young to even
stand in memory I can see my plump infants hands reaching up to tug at the
white strangles of hair above Yoda's ears I recall squalling shrieking like a
wounded glow bat as Yoda prefers to describe it as some kind of toy a rattle
it might have been bobbed in the air just beyond
I recall how no amount of shouting screaming howling or tears
could draw that rattle one millimeter closer to my tiny fist and I recall the
instant I first reached out for the toy without using my hands how I could feel
it hanging there and I could feel how Yoda's Minds ported it and a whisper of
the force began to hum in my ears the next lesson Yoda had come to take the
rattle away and I with my infant's instinctive selfishness and refused to
release it holding on with both my hands and all I could summon up the force the
rattle broke to my infant mind a tragedy like the end of a world for that had
been Yoda's way of introducing the Jedi law of non-attachment
holding too tightly to what we love will destroy it and break our hearts as well
so this is pretty cool heartbreak is the Jedi's first lesson the Jedi try to
condition their younglings from infancy to embrace non-attachment
and it seems kind of mean actually and he's kind of like taunting this toy in
front of baby mace windu and then all of a sudden it breaks and poor baby mace
was probably crying now perhaps they're hoping if they learn this lesson so
young it'll stick on some subconscious level or something I don't know how you
guys feel about this but I think the Jedi were a little bit too attached to
the idea of non-attachment instead they should have encouraged it but then
learned to meditate and think calmly during heartbreak or moments of fear for
those you love like how Anakin was supposed to bring balance to the force
the Jedi could have found a balance between non-attachment and crazy
obsession but I feel like they were so afraid of anything that might make them
have some sort of emotion outside of just being plain yogurt that they just
sort of became these robotic dogs and in the end they were just adhering to what
the Senate was telling them to do for the Republic for democracy but anyways
we know only a Sith deals in absolutes but in some ways it seems like Jedi kind
of deal in absolutes too they really think there's only one way to do
something when really there isn't I think qui-gon was a revolutionary Jedi
I even think Dooku was as well but of course he went kind of crazy and went to
the dark side fully whereas qui-gon stayed in the light but he listened more
to the force he wasn't persuaded and swayed so much like the Jedi were to
follow the cries of the may said there were peacekeepers but in
actuality they really were soldiers which is something that a so could comes
to learn as to how civilians view the Jedi in Clone Wars season 7 and now I
know tres and Rafa weren't the most popular amongst you guys and hey they
were kind of boring even when I was watching it but it did show you some
things that we weren't able to see otherwise with how the civilians how the
public viewed the Jedi and this really played into how Anakin was starting to
view them too and it really allowed me and helped me to understand exactly
where he was coming from I mean it sound like I didn't already but it just helped
me even more so what are you guys thoughts about this please let me know
in the comments below do you think the Jedi were just a bit too attached the
idea of non-attachment and this is a bit of a discourse do you think they should
have allowed Anakin to actually go back and find his mother because he was gonna
do it anyways and look what happened they could have avoided that whole thing
if they just someone believed in attachment a little bit and how to deal
with it I think qui-gon would have been the
father Anakin needed but then again this video is about mace Windu and the others
teachings but as always it leads us into a different conversation and that's the
whole fun of it hope you have an awesome day
see you in the next one until then remember the force will be with you
always
distantly