This is probably one of the more interesting takes…
May 20, 2005 by John in Entertainment
This is probably one of the more interesting takes on the Star Wars universe since Randall’s rant in “Clerks” about the destruction of the second Deathstar in Return of the Jedi: The public choice economics of Star Wars: A Straussian reading.
Something has bothered me about this whole, “Bringing balance back to the Force,” thing since the first prequel. There are scores of Jedi. There are (usually, only) two Sith. Seems to me from and Eastern yin-yang point of view, the side of the Force that is causing the imbalance is the “good” side. The way to bring it into balance is to increase the number of Sith to match the number of Jedi or, as happens in the ROTS (I don’t think I’m spoiling it for anyone) destroy most of the Jedi. So the chosen one does, indeed, bring balance back to the Force.