Holy Crap.

This is from the comments section of an Awl post about Harry Potter (the discussion started ranging from His Dark Materials and the Chronicles of Narnia to Star Wars and Lord of the Rings, predictably).

I mean, it's also possible to see Star Wars as the story of a group of malcontent guerrillas willing to murder thousands of government-contracted workers and disrupt an entire galactic economy simply for the opportunity to impose their own imperfect authority on a majority population of billions that was more or less OK with the status quo (and to reinstate the members of an elite religious order as a paramilitary arm of the state!).

OH MY GOD THE JEDI WERE EVIL