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a furtive pygmy ([personal profile] cashew) wrote in [personal profile] tanithryudo 2016-10-25 12:09 pm (UTC)

I completely agree. There's just too much manchild drama instead of actual drama with actual pain from living the vagaries of life, like discrimination, bigotry, cultural clash, ideological/philosophical conflict. While I understand that superhero genre is meant as escapism, specifically from all the messiness of real world politics where the problem of the world can't be blamed on a villain/villainous group, that just emphasizes the problem.

Hell, look at the current election. It's the reason Trump has as much support as he does. A demagogue who can rally people behind blaming all the world's wrongs on a group of people and saying that he and he alone has the solution. People aren't looking at the reality of the world's complexities and just want a superhero to swoop in to solve everything.

So, yeah, it's no surprise that Hollywood is capitalizing and perpetuating this problem. *sigh*

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