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Sunday, September 14, 2008
Friday, September 12, 2008
Where have all the heros gone?
Just got back from Batman, ya it took me this long. It was a good movie BM's voice was a little over the top and that bike is just dorky but all in all worth seeing.
The one thing that struck me was the subtext, what is evil and what is good? It's interesting when someone or something that has the preconception of being evil in the end shows us the strength that we may lack in ourselves. Honestly if you had an accurate graph of who was evil and who was good you'd find that one or two percent would fall in the good category, one or two percent would fall in the evil category and everyone else would fall somewhere in the middle. The question then becomes how can you move the middle to be more good or potentially more evil? Here's another question why are superhero movies so popular now? I believe both questions arrive at the same answer.
Let us look at our current (USA) election circus. On one hand you have McCain, 72 years old! You may has well be advertising Palin for president. If you look at photos of past presidents when they've entered office and after they've left you can see the toll that the job's taken on them (FDR and Regan are clear examples). Although both had illnesses that probably helped contributed but still, the weight of the world on their shoulders. I think I'll side with Two-Face on this one. I give him a fifty-fifty chance that he makes is out of office.
...and then we have Obama, I wonder how disenfranchised those supporters will be when all those promises don't come to fruition? You know what they say? The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
If ever there was a time that we needed Superman...it's now.
I've said that to myself a lot lately, we do need Superman now. Someone to be our moral compass, someone that is that one or two percent good, to push us more towards the side of good then down the path of evil. Unfortunately for us Superman is a fictional character and only resides in our heads and possibly in our hearts and unfortunately for us, those who are passing themselves off as leaders are just somewhere in the middle.
good luck world
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The one thing that struck me was the subtext, what is evil and what is good? It's interesting when someone or something that has the preconception of being evil in the end shows us the strength that we may lack in ourselves. Honestly if you had an accurate graph of who was evil and who was good you'd find that one or two percent would fall in the good category, one or two percent would fall in the evil category and everyone else would fall somewhere in the middle. The question then becomes how can you move the middle to be more good or potentially more evil? Here's another question why are superhero movies so popular now? I believe both questions arrive at the same answer.
Let us look at our current (USA) election circus. On one hand you have McCain, 72 years old! You may has well be advertising Palin for president. If you look at photos of past presidents when they've entered office and after they've left you can see the toll that the job's taken on them (FDR and Regan are clear examples). Although both had illnesses that probably helped contributed but still, the weight of the world on their shoulders. I think I'll side with Two-Face on this one. I give him a fifty-fifty chance that he makes is out of office.
...and then we have Obama, I wonder how disenfranchised those supporters will be when all those promises don't come to fruition? You know what they say? The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
If ever there was a time that we needed Superman...it's now.
I've said that to myself a lot lately, we do need Superman now. Someone to be our moral compass, someone that is that one or two percent good, to push us more towards the side of good then down the path of evil. Unfortunately for us Superman is a fictional character and only resides in our heads and possibly in our hearts and unfortunately for us, those who are passing themselves off as leaders are just somewhere in the middle.
good luck world
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