From: anybody@anywhere-anytime.com   
      
   In article <1177282093.402871.202840@b75g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,   
   Sean Walsh  wrote:   
      
   > On Apr 22, 2:29 pm, Chris Schumacher  wrote:   
   > > I was watching ANH the other night, and something hit me as kind of   
   > > odd.   
   > > Okay, Luke knows what a Jedi is, and what the Clone Wars were,  but he   
   > > has no idea what the Force or a lightsaber is?   
   > > Don't they have libraries on Tatooine?   
   >   
   > Is it entirely possible that the Emperor forbid archives to possess   
   > information about the Jedi after Order 66 and the birth of the Empire?   
   > As we've seen, the guy wasn't exactly the most honest guy.   
   >   
   > Or rather this....   
   >   
   > As the prequels showed, the Jedi really lived in a world to themselves   
   > and were considered a mystery to common folk. So maybe knowing about   
   > things like the Force and lightsabers just wasn't something the rest   
   > of the galaxy, outside the upper echelons of leadership, was even   
   > aware of.   
   > I'm sure there were dwellers of Coruscant who was as ignorant to the   
   > Jedi's ways as denizens of planets on the Outer Rim were.   
      
   Plus, Luke is still a youngster ... and since when have youngsters been   
   interested in things that happened before they were born - they all   
   think the world started WHEN they were born.   ;-)   
      
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