Brian Doherty demonstrates how our reality is like a knock-down brawl in the DC comics universe.
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Comments to "New at Reason":
P Brooks | May 6, 2006, 3:00pm | #
"By mixing in this DC comics' tribute/attack on Bush foreign policy, we can create the most accurate name yet for this century's American military operations: How about "Operation Enduring Crisis"?"I just think of it as "Operation Tar Baby."
Gimme Back My Dog | May 6, 2006, 6:00pm | #
BTW, today is Free Comic Book Day. Head down to your local comic book store and pick up a free book.Shannon Love | May 7, 2006, 12:03pm | #
Well, lets see.The purpose of Leftism is to make the articulate intellectual the highest status class of individuals in human society. They define all problems in political sphere such that articulate intellectuals are the only class of people capable of truly addressing the problem. They reject military solutions not because they don't think they will work but because they know that they will have no role in the events. Instead, they try to define problems in such a way that talking is the only means of solving the problem.
Comic book writers are part of the articulate intellectual class. Their rejection of Bush and his strategy does not reflect a national zeitgeist but just the biases of their own subgroup. Unfortunately, since our storytellers, both fictional and "factual" all belong largely to the same subculture, the narrative our society eventually embraces reflects their from shear repetition and domination.
Hopefully, with the power of the internet we will not get a recapitulation of the last time the articulate intellectuals dominated US foreign policy. That episode lead to democide, oppression and poverty for millions and the widespread belief that any group, no matter how small, could attack the US without serious consequence.
Ronald Reagan used to say that he would not be well regarded by history because he knew that the people who wrote the histories didn't like him. He was write. When the people with the cultural megaphone hate you for their own narcissistic reasons, you are screwed.