- Part 1: The Choice
- Part 2: The Sacrifice
- Part 3: The Legacy
This visual essay is broken into three parts, use the “Related” section to link between the parts. You are viewing part 3.
After Luthen was captured, Kleya steps in and protects the Rebellion’s future by ending Luthen’s life.
Another difficult choice, reminding us, our choices do have impact.
What does this mean to Luthen? I don’t think we’ll ever know, but all along the way it was hard choices that secured the rebellions future.
Luthen’s impact on the success of the rebellion is clear, but Luthen’s attempt at a stepping back to look at the larger picture helped pave the way for unity.
With all of it’s flaws and it’s struggles, we learn how to unify.
A new beginning from an old and dying world. We learn how to treat each other better, we learn that we are fighting for the same thing, even if we differ in our methods.
Why the TV series “Andor” is essential to our Modern World
Andor is the first work of art to show me that self-sacrifice is vital for the health and well-being of future generations.
Every character in Andor, regardless of the side they fight on, matters on some level. Being on the receiving end of colonial expansion, or growing up in authoritarian society shapes our decisions and pits us against each other. These internal struggles paint a picture of how society and culture develop.
Real change starts with acknowledging the hard truths of our time, reducing harms and improving our current conditions to create new vision of what the world can be.
The writers on the Andor project have something important to say about the concepts of freedom and repression. My hope, or our hope, is to inspire future generations. It all starts with moral freedom.
This essay is part of a series I call “Andor In Our Time (AIOT)”, where my goal is to encourage selflessness in a time of selfishness. I might create additional sets of essays on other Movies and TV series to promote concepts and ideas that foster self-awareness.
In my next AIOT video, I will be focusing on the psychological effects of authoritarianism (The Empire) and some ways we can use our willpower to rise above social engineering agendas to recognize our independent human value.
My Background
I’m a self-educated thinker with an interest in philosophy and science. I take a more ancient view of science as an extension of philosophy. I’ve spent my life learning directly from an interest-based mindset. I strongly believe in self-education. I feel that most modern formal educational systems are slanted towards preparing students for the workforce. And in that regard, it produces a lack of critical thinking about our place in the world as human beings. At the same time, I realize that academia’s structured system encourages discipline. Something I lacked for much of my life and constantly struggle with.
FAQ
Why are you not promoting this content more on YouTube or other social media platforms?
“never carry anything you can’t control..” - Luthen Rael
Most social media platforms that I know of have systems in place that aim to censor content in ways that help to maintain the binary relationship between the ruling class and its slaves (us). There are decentralized platforms like Peertube and Mastodon, but technologies based on decentralized platforms are just another method of control. When I think of a censorship resistant platform, I think distributed, I think of BitTorrent. Torrents have been around since the nineties and although the have stamped out most directories, you can still use BitTorent to host content. ActivityPub aims to centralize agendas that seek to censor ideas through politically correct ideologies. Our corrupt institutions, through propaganda and legal systems, put pressure on the gatekeepers, instance administrators, to do this bidding. Also, culture is shaped by power differentials, where people who buy into divisive politics act as gatekeepers of self-censorship.
And no, instance owners don’t have the right to suppress content on behalf of the people who use the instance/platform. That’s another form of censorship that any misguided government or organization would try to use against its people to minimize discourse and it’s more subtle because you don’t even know it’s happening.
Where are you going with this series?
There is a rise in authoritarianism around the globe, and Andor is a parallel world that offers hope and courage in these dark times.
I aim to discover my own inner truth by working through these complex topics, and I aim to re-educate people to recognize their self-determined inner value. We cannot be truly free or come together as one people until we rediscover our original human value we came to this earth with.
I support kindness and forgiveness, while maintaining boundaries against evil as a path forward. Our psychological biases and limitations can prevent us from working together. What we need right now is to be free from division. Left and right politics, created by people in positions of power, have taken us so far off course that it’s going to take some serious work to restore our faith in humanity.
Our future
2026 is going to be a challenging year. The ruling class has created cultural norms that we perpetuate when we buy into social conditions that encourage us to disregard harms at the expense of progress.
Technological progress, based on surveillance capitalism, is harmful to Society. When we allow social media platforms to use algorithms and AI to feed us content, it destabilizes our Society.
I’m here to tell you this is a grave mistake for all of us. It’s something the Nazi Regime started when Hitler rose to power. If we don’t find a way to divest from this movement, we will find ourselves in a totalitarian system that is way worse than these authoritarian actions our current administration’s criminals are involved in.
We need to change the narrative around this. Call out harms when you see them, remind people we are a nation of laws. We will not be bullied into being complicit in atrocities against our people or people in other countries for the sake of future progress.
For more information around these topics, check out my section on Surveillance Capitalism. Thanks for reading. If you have any comments, reach out to me at inquiries at scottrlarson.com