Comics & RL - rant

And so, yet another Marvel story arc has ended – the Secret Empire where Steve Rogers turns evil Hydra one. And?

And nothing. A new story arc – ‘Secret Empire Omega’ – is already in the works. MCU and co. are making more money, at least theoretically. The end. Anything else?

Nothing except the entire tyranny/anti-tyranny note that MCU (and to a different extent, BtVS) was singing ever since the Donald became POTUS. For a while now it was the talk of the year as to how he is going to end the democracy in the U.S. unless the good American people unite and end him instead. Well, months went on, democracy has not ended yet, and neither has the Donald’s tenure as POTUS despite everything. Why?

Because everything has went down in opposition to whatever comics are preaching. In them, (i.e., MCU) the heroes (and even some anti-heroes/villains) have united to end a threat – a very real threat, BTW. In RL, on the other hand, the politicians are still fighting each other as well as the American president, or rather – they are mocking him and doing it as part of their own conflicts. The Daily Beast site has pointed out back earlier in 2017 that Trump’s U.S. is no Orwellian nightmare, (‘1984’, here), so some re-evaluating might be done. But no – full steam ahead, and now we got an anti-Russian investigation that is going nowhere but deeper into itself and the messy underbelly of U.S. own politics, populace that is continuing to be divided between itself from top to bottom, both in D.C. and beyond, and nothing that is being down elsewhere, (beyond the American borders). Never mind Russia; North Korea is continuing to go forwards with its’ bid to rule the world and/or start WWIII, and the U.S. does not do nothing, it is too divided to do anything concrete without causing more internal divisions in itself.

The comics themselves…yes, this is just like Hollywood. U.S. was founded on European Protestant principles of individuality, entrepreneurship, self-sufficiency and initial equality and rights – and now the rights are being slowly replaced by privileges, and the other values are being sharpened up to, or into, the zone of absurdity, and just don’t work as they used to anymore. The Americans should take a breather and figure out where they are heading next, but they do anything but that; in particular, they are using the election and the reputation of the latest POTUS to further their own schemes. Al those Hollywood marches and demonstrations and statements were like that – the people there got their shares of political capital, got sated, the end. Only ‘the ship of state’ got rocked further, so really, the American people should either start solving this problem for real, or stop pretending that it exists and go on with their lives. Otherwise, their battle against this imaginary bugbear will transform into something real, much more so, something that will not be stopped by comics.

End rant? Pretty much, this particular comic story arc is over, people are getting over Hydra-inflicted damage, but wait, there is more to come! MCU has abandoned those pithy RL topics- very nicely, as people come together in a community to get over the Hydra-related and –inflicted damage, but still. The end. It is off for another adventure, this one of recovery and rebirth! Yay! ...You cannot sit on two chairs, you can either educate or entertain, and making money from either of them is something else. If the comics do not understand this, if America does not understand this, then it really is in trouble, without any political involvement from RF or anyone else.

End rant. (Sorry about incoherency, I just was not in the mood to be coherent).