Counsel with Yoda

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"Careful you must be when sensing the future, Anakin. The fear of loss is the path to the Dark Side."

Anakin responds "I won't let these visions come true, master Yoda"

Already he is unwilling to accept loss.

"Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who have transformed into the force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not."

Yoda is trying to teach Anakin why he should not be so occupied with the death of those he cares for. In terms of the Force, death means very little. It is important for a Jedi to not become obsessed with emotions about death, or anything, because...

"Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is."

Greed and jealously are not really Anakin's problem in this case, but this is a great example of one of the many principles for restricting emotions that the Jedi must maintain.Yo be a Jedi is to walk a fine line, always wary of temptation and passion. This leads to a very potent point about the ways and teachings of the Jedi, and how they are forced to live. Jedi must detach themselves from many things, including emotions. Because a Jedi is strong in the Force, the danger of the Dark Side tapping into their negative emotions is great, and must constantly be gaurded against.

The best way to do this, or so the Jedi of the Old Jedi Order believe, is to isolate their life from certain things that inspire temptations and negative emotions. That is why the lives of Jedi are largely void of material possessions, why Jedi are not allowed to love, and exactly why it is an important Jedi teaching to consider death favorably and peacefully, for if Jedi took deaths too seriously, the emotional disturbances and repurcussions would be disastrous. Revenge alone is too powerful an emotion and too great a tool of the Dark Side to leave unchecked in jedi teachings, and revenge may be just one of many strong emotion spurred by death.

"Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose."

This is the simple how. How to save yourself from emotional turmoil over loss. A Jedi must detach themself from a lot of things, inorder to maintain a peaceful disposition.

Pathocracy

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Pathocracy is a disease of great social movements followed by entire societies, nations, and empires. In the course of human history, it has affected social, political, and religious movements as well as the accompanying ideologies… and turned them into caricatures of themselves…. This occurred as a result of the … participation of pathological agents in a pathodynamically similar process. That explains why all the pathocracies of the world are, and have been, so similar in their essential properties.

…Identifying these phenomena through history and properly qualifying them according to their true nature and contents - not according to the ideology in question, which succumbed to the process of caricaturization - is a job for historians. […]
The actions of [pathocracy] affect an entire society, starting with the leaders and infiltrating every town, business, and institution. The pathological social structure gradually covers the entire country creating a “new class” within that nation. This privileged class [of pathocrats] feels permanently threatened by the “others”, i.e. by the majority of normal people. Neither do the pathocrats entertain any illusions about their personal fate should there be a return to the system of normal man. [Andrew M. Lobaczewski Political Ponerology: A science on the nature of evil adjusted for political purposes]