in the stoic philosophy, there's the stoic philosopher known as epictetus and i believe this is his writing that he said that we all have two levers in which to fall in life, two choices. we can either do this, we can do that. and the choice that we make is going to determine what kind of life we're going to live, whether or not we're going to be happy, whether or not going to indulge our wants, our vices and our desires, or if we're going to choose to abstain certain things and star the empire strikes back episode five that came out in 1980. yoda says, luke skywalker, that once you go down the dark path forever will consume your destiny. really on this same general idea that the choices we make are going to cascade into other choices and confrontations with light and darkness, our lives. these are the things that i'm asking people to think about in star wars, looking beyond the lightsaber battles in the course space, but actually saying like these movies are offering timeless. and if we apply that to our political situations to our political conflicts, to our relationships there's actually