When you live in a world that feels increasingly illiterate and ignorant, I can't tell you how wonderful it was to see people of all ages lining up at a book store at midnight when the last Harry Potter book finally came out.
For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Of course, that was long before the dark times, before the Emperor rose to power along with his acolyte, the Dark Lord of the Sith.
An angry George Lucas has filed a hefty $5 million trademark lawsuit against Jedi Mind for selling apps that allows users to play games simply by thinking.
In official censuses over the last few years, hundreds of thousands of people have listed their religion as Jedi - indeed, it's the second-largest religious affiliation in New Zealand.