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I Need A Hero
Jul. 11th, 2008 03:27 pm5/9 of the movies playing in Union Square are superhero related.
Why for? Do people turn to superheroes in desperate times, when it seems no one and nothing can save them? Is that what brought Superman into being? (he was created in his heroic form in 1934, after first appearing as a Nietzche-esque mentalist supervillain in 1933)
Quite frankly, I could use a superhero to protect me from the seemingly ever-more-frightening array of weapons being developed by our military. Autonomous tanks and hunter-seeker spider robots freak the shit out of me, since I'm just a weak bag of water and all.
http://www.cracked.com/article_16477_5-famous-Sci-Fi-weapons-that-theyre-actually-building.html
What happens when an elite class of people become the tech-haves, and have to "defend themselves" or "defend their lifestyle" from billions of have-nots?
Why for? Do people turn to superheroes in desperate times, when it seems no one and nothing can save them? Is that what brought Superman into being? (he was created in his heroic form in 1934, after first appearing as a Nietzche-esque mentalist supervillain in 1933)
Quite frankly, I could use a superhero to protect me from the seemingly ever-more-frightening array of weapons being developed by our military. Autonomous tanks and hunter-seeker spider robots freak the shit out of me, since I'm just a weak bag of water and all.
http://www.cracked.com/article_16477_5-famous-Sci-Fi-weapons-that-theyre-actually-building.html
What happens when an elite class of people become the tech-haves, and have to "defend themselves" or "defend their lifestyle" from billions of have-nots?