Absolute Green Lantern: The other side of the hierarchy

Absolute Green Lantern: The other side of the hierarchy When John explains that the color hierarchy is the Oan perspective, he isn't just adding a technicality. The other side has an entire argument for turning it around. Mu means Maker-Unmaker. Its Controller treats that as the proper ordering of what OA calls Omega-Alpha. He insists the end is darkness, not light. That is his position, and it helps explain why the same ideas are being arranged so differently. Issue seven gives us that argument through the doctrine of Mu. Gold, which the Oan explanation places at the top as enlightenment, gets dismissed as useless philosophy. “Fool's gold.” Green is treated as inexperience, because you're still letting ideas of right and wrong limit your actions. Red means you've gotten further, but you're still holding yourself back. Black is what that doctrine puts above them. It presents the Black Star as rationality and pure will, free of those restraints. Mogo says he speaks the doctrine of Mu, holds authority from its Controller, and upholds the law of Qard. I think it's important to keep saying WHO is making these claims. This isn't the comic quietly replacing the earlier definitions with the correct answers. We're being shown how that faction justifies itself. The Oan view values restraint and understanding; this other view treats those things as limitations you've got to get past. And then you see how that plays out. A world has allowed Oan followers to remain there, and Mogo treats that as a violation. The language turns collective punishment into enforcement of a supposedly rational law. Once they decide a rule has been broken, everyone can be made responsible. That gives the colors more weight than a simple ranking of who can hit hardest. The disagreement is over what power is FOR and what should limit it. You can understand the Blackstars' explanation without buying their claim that cruelty becomes rational just because they've put it in a doctrine.