The Blog Of Dysfunction

It is possible that in a universe without shades of gray, I would be unhappy because I would have no choice. But I really do wish in this world, we had better ways of distinguishing the moral from the immoral, and right from wrong. In the absence of such clarity, we invented fantasy fiction and superheroes.

But the post-post modern superhuman seems to be not just amoral, but incapable of distinguishing between good and evil. I find the super hero of today more of a villain than a hero. I don’t like this darker, morbid and often fatalistic universe of deals with the devil and clearly wrong choices that they have no option but to make. I like to have some place where the line between the good guys and the bad and good and evil are relatively clear, and this new pantheon of villain-heroes with psychotic streaks is disturbing and upsetting.

We all need heroes, and we need heroes we can look up to in admiration and awe, we need them for motivation, mentoring, for serving as goals, to know that it can be done. We need to have heroes who make bad choices as well as good, we need to know they are human, in that they make mistakes, but special, in that they make amends and make better choices because of the bad one’s. Being human, is not a Calvinist living hell of absolute inability to be good but a struggle to make right choices in difficult times .

The new heroes we see are different, it is not just difficult, but impossible to tell them apart from the villains.

Yes, I have been watching Heroes

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I know it’s a bit repetitive, I wrote it dammit!