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).
