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Dannagal G. Young@dannagal.bsky.social |
In retrospect maybe decades of saturation in American cowboy and superhero fiction - in which solo vigilantes (fed up with incompetence and malice of public servants) work outside of government or the law to single handedly restore order - weren’t such a good idea…
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Chris Carpenter
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“I thought that it had serious and worrying implications for the future if millions of adults were queueing up to see Batman movies. Because that kind of infantilisation – that urge towards simpler times, simpler realities – that can very often be a precursor to fascism.” -Alan Moore
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Bill Jank
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I think about this alot. Telling a good story about a competent organization is hard. I can’t necessarily think of an example from TV or movies (police procedurals, maybe?); and from books, Kim Stanley Robinson is one of the few authors who tells of a possibly positive future…
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Voder of BORG
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The problem is they were written in a time when the Police were on the take and crime was sky high and you could buy an automatic Thompson in a hardware store…they are a snapshot of crime fighting before the war… The evolution is Nolan’s Batman is from the French Connection not Untouchables.
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Nix Onyx
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"Maverick cop" is really not looking so good either.
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M*chael
@anorbicleofjasp.bsky.social
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Relevant Graeber essay on superheros and reactionary politics:
thenewinquiry.com/super-positi...
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Julie Novkov
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The EPA guy is the villain in Ghostbusters.
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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him)
@nathankalmoe.bsky.social
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“But Hollywood is liberal!”
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