civilize

Times announcement of the marriage of two Yuma Indian School grads noted that “both are full-blooded Indians … and both very much civilized.”

“In a civilized society, what does violence get you?”

Only the Jedi are deemed civilized, and therefore their orthodoxy of the Force should be imposed on others for their own good.

Shocking because violence is no way for a civilized people to mediate their political differences.

We sense early on, from Mortensen’s delicate handling of their courtship, that this isn’t some musty rehash of the trope where she civilizes him and he domesticates her.