A World of Warrior Priests

We're watching the 1970s TV show "Kung Fu" on DVDs. The series is great. The characters and acting and fight scenes are hilarious in retrospect. I was too young to watch the series when it was originally aired, but I'm sure I've seen at least one or two of the episodes here and there. The series was extremely influential as a pop-culture piece.

The hero of the series is "Caine", which is obviously a reference to the biblical Cain of the Cain and Abel story and an indication that the writers and producers of the series adhere to the gnostic interpretation of creation.

Caine is a true individual and adherent to principles of natural law and justice. He's a one man army, and a one man nation. The type of education he is shown to receive in the series seems pretty close to ideal. Imagine a world of such men. The system we have today is setup to massively enrich merchants and financiers.

It seems very likely that most of the concepts in "Star Wars", like the Jedi Knights, the Force, the character Yoda, etc... are really drawn from Kung Fu.