Want to know about Paul Ryan? Read this excellent New Yorker piece by Ryan Lizza! You will know a LOT about him!

[Mr Khan]

Kasz216 said:

Mr Khan said:
It was a joke, because we do know that Ryan hasn't embraced Objectivism on the whole (since atheism is poisonous to any American politician, let alone a Republican). Though it is true that Objectivism would match the views of the Expanded Universe Sith, which was based entirely on "Rule of the Strong."

That explains it.  Don't really have much expierence with the expanded Universe.

I could never get past how the force went from cool psychic powers in the movies to "I can destroy star destroyers with the force."

and if I remember correctly Luke Skywalker once uses the force to control black holes or something.

EU is ridiculious.

 

 

The problem with EU (as we dive headfirst into derailing this thread) is that there are too many authors. Like in one novel, the Force was used to push a fleet of star destroyers halfway across a star system, but it took a whole academy full of jedi to do it, and the jedi who was used as their "focal point" died in the attempt. I never read the one with Luke and Black Holes (possibly The Crystal Star, which i never read), but some of them made jedi powers ridiculous. Some villains had their characterizations changed completely from book to book, too, like Warlord Zsinj who went from your standard corrupt military warlord to a secret strategic genius who was only pretending to be corrupt and incompetent. Romances forged and broken (like trying to get Lando Calrissian together with Mara Jade, where the author that created Mara Jade later forced the issue by having her marry Luke, but then in the dreadful Yuuzhan Vong thing, she was killed off altogether, though decades later and with a kid out of it), and lots of geopolitical problems (one author liked to think that the Imperial Remnant was at the very center of the galaxy, while others put it for on the outer rim)

The funny thing is that even the Sith knew that their "Objectivism" didn't really work, which is why Darth Bane devised the Rule of Two. Too many Sith running around, all believing that the ends justified the means, and there could never be a stable Sith society. If there are only two, it's nice and stable.