The last Jedi and losing your religion

Good article by that name. The gist in this excerpt:

"Ultimately this film is about deconstruction. It’s about tearing down the idols of your youth because the time has come for you to outgrow them. For the Star Wars universe, that means being willing to let the Skywalker legacy fade away. It had a good run, and it charmed us all with its magic.

"But the world is much more complicated than the simplistic dualisms of our younger days, and our heroes and villains are equally complex. We cannot keep trying to force everything and everyone into predictable categories because, truth be told, the world never was quite so simple. We were never right to think it was.

"For many of us, that meant growing up to see through the artificial nature of the religious categories we internalized from our youngest days. Like Luke and Yoda discussed as they watched their most sacred place burning to the ground (by their own hand, I might add), it was time for the Jedi religion to die. Through that system of belief, the Jedi were indoctrinated into believing that they themselves were responsible for controlling and managing the Force, which as Luke told Rey was vanity.

"The Force didn’t belong to anyone any more than virtue, goodness, or purpose belong to any one tribe, nation, culture, or religion. Sooner or later you’re supposed to grow up enough to see that. I would argue that most people don’t, which makes me sound elitist, I know. But it’s still the truth. What’s really elitist is believing that your tribe, and yours alone, holds the patent on righteousness and truth."