Sunday, January 2, 2005 |
14:00 - Superhero conspiracy
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Sometimes Justice League is really cool. Other times, well...
Like the episode that aired last night, whose plot centered on a group of cloned superheroes that had been engineered by some top-secret agency to be "totally loyal to the government... unlike those loose cannons in the Justice League."
The band of hero-bots decides to take out the Justice League, for God and country. When one of them (Windtalker, or Dreamcatcher, or something, with big sad eyes and a tragic fate) demurrs and raises objections, the others blast him aside, sneering, "It's like the man said: you're either with us, or you're against us."
Maybe I'm reading too much into this. .... Naaahh.
Explain to me again how our popular media is indoctrinating our youth with messages of conformity and unquestioning loyalty and the necessity of crushing all dissent.
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