Superheroes and Crooks
As I stood in line at the post office today, a question arose: is it a coincidence that my ability to enjoy corrupt politicians, businessmen/women, and humans in general being brought to justice has increased in direct proportion to the number of Superhero v Evil Villain mega-movies on the market lately?Real life, fantastically enough, with the Enron scandal and now Abramoff pleading guilty (see http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/03/abramoff.plea/ - talk about an evil villain picture, that is right out of the Pink Panther) has become more unbelievable than the movies...this has probably occurred to millions of people, but it struck a particular chord in me today.
A real quick tangent, if I may get on my soapbox for a moment: this is further proof of the universal applicability of children's stories and fables, which draw things in slightly more black and white terms than we typically expect from normal life but make us ponder questions of good versus evil (which, fantastically enough, life tends to follow at times). | posted by Cheryl, 1/03/2006 05:08:00 PM
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