That first bit is necessary when your system praises being self-serving to such a degree, [he points out, having clearly given this some serious thought since he left, trying to puzzle out how the Dark Side didn't end with massive internal upheavals every other week.] Otherwise you'd have too many people aiming to be at the top of the organization for it to function. It's horrible, but it's efficient, I'll give them that.

Most forms of meditation are beyond me so I've returned to the basics, the things I was first taught. Sometimes peace isn't total calm but rather can be found in the reduction of internal chaos. What they did was convince me and virtually all other recruits that total calm all the time was the definition of peace so that, having twisted our definition of the word, they could make their statement feel true.

As I said before: horrible yet efficient. I'm glad to be free of it to whatever degree I am.