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Antimatter

Alright
just finished Grant Morrison's Supergods

it's an insanely detailed analysis of the comics medium/autobiography/comparison between art and culture/drug induced ramblings

he mentions an idea that culture alternates between optimistic hippie give peace a chance/antagonistic rebellious punk over a period of time, among other things

it's got some random, weirdass, bullshit that really didn't need to be said, but above all other things, the entire thing is interesting, if just to see him talk about the importance of fiction and myth in our lives, and how he became how he is now

of course, he can't resist talking about the real life superheroes, including Phoenix Jones, which is questionable

talks about how we're all super with the machines in our lives

but, this is what I want to talk about, not comics

the capability of man for good and evil, the JFKs, the Gandhis, the MLKs, the Thatchers, the Reagans, the terrorists

the idea that good always wins, even if the war doesn't end

that we can all become better, all redeemed over time

that the heroes in our lives are real, that our ideas show our future

I don't know, i just thought it was interesting and worth talking about

GeoMitch

has a real-life superhero ever done anything ever

Henroid

But where do cyborgs fit into all this?

Solar

I need to read this for my dissertation

Tossrock

Good manifestly does not always win. It's sad, but that's how the world works. The large majority of the human species lives a shitty life and then dies, for the sole reason of having the bad luck to be born in a third world country.

Antimatter

his point in the book was that even though individual lives died, they are replaced
there isn't a generation without doctors or policemen
and that eventually, with every single bad thing threatening us, we will overcome or adapt

so even if life doesn't remain how it is now, it will go on, and we will continue to be, and defeat those that would commit atrocities, among other things

Uriel

There is no generation without it's own atrocity committing monsters also.

Antimatter

and then they go away.

way to fucking go guys, this was supposed to be an optimistic thread

Henroid

This is gonna boil down to one of those "glass is half-full / half-empty" deals, isn't it?

The Lovely Bastard

I vote all other thread titles should be changed to what this one's is

Henroid

I'm camping out in this one in spite of Antimatter.

Dichotomy

I'm picking this horse purely to spite TLB

Hunter

Dichotomy wrote:

I'm picking this horse purely to spite TLB

Always a good strategy.

The Lovely Bastard

those two posts

together

I do not know what to think

Tossrock

whoops

BugBoy

I find the concept of a supergod intriguing

is a supergod to a god what an ubermensch is to a man

Sweeney Tom

Antimatter, your problem was you expected people to make an optimism thread out of a comic book OP in SE++

Henroid

As long as Dichotomy and I can agree on boycotting ed, we coo'.

Dichotomy

this is a better thread because it isn't filled with embedded youtubes

Solar

Well

You can either take the view that so many people are horrible and do such bad things and only care about themselves and isn't life so awful

Or

You can take the view that plenty of people are good and compassionate and caring people who do right by those around them simply because it is just that, the right thing to do.

And I think it is better to take the second because while crushing despair and nihilism gets you girls when you are fourteen, it's not exactly a good way to live your life.

just a thought

The Geebs That Is A Pony

Dichotomy wrote:

this is a better thread because it isn't filled with embedded youtubes

oh?

oh?

Dichotomy

nooooooooo

The Geebs That Is A Pony

it's just my moon rocket

my my moon rocket

Henroid

Dichotomy wrote:

this is a better thread because it isn't filled with embedded youtubes

Nice going.

chrishallett83

Such an awesome pick-me-up song:

Knob

is someone a fucking crybaby