The Legion of Doom
Something occurred to me the other day. The people who hate the U.S., the people we're at war against, aside from hating the U.S., I don't really know anything about them. Like I know that we're at war with them, because they want us to be at war with them...or at least, I know that this is our official position, but what they're basic beliefs are, I have no idea.
Like, left to their own devices, what is it that they would do, say if we didn't fuck with them or give guns to their enemies. Now, mind you, I'm not saying we shouldn't give guns to their enemies, I'm just saying, what does their afternoon schedule look like.
I mean, Persian Bazaar right? So, they're capitalists. What else? Communists? Monarchists? Oligarchalist? I mean, what vision of the world, if they win, will they enforce on the world? They won't expect us to become Muslim right? And they certainly aren't thinking they're going to kill all the non-Muslims, so what is it that they're trying to do?
Then I realized something. You know what? I'm not really trained to figure out what the villains are doing. You see, I used to watch the Superfriends. What the hell was the Legion of Doom attempting to do really? Say they managed to win one episode, what would they do exactly?
I think that's how I think about villains, evil, enemies, etc.; they're just kind of there to sneer and get shot at. Sad, but kind of true.
Like, left to their own devices, what is it that they would do, say if we didn't fuck with them or give guns to their enemies. Now, mind you, I'm not saying we shouldn't give guns to their enemies, I'm just saying, what does their afternoon schedule look like.
I mean, Persian Bazaar right? So, they're capitalists. What else? Communists? Monarchists? Oligarchalist? I mean, what vision of the world, if they win, will they enforce on the world? They won't expect us to become Muslim right? And they certainly aren't thinking they're going to kill all the non-Muslims, so what is it that they're trying to do?
Then I realized something. You know what? I'm not really trained to figure out what the villains are doing. You see, I used to watch the Superfriends. What the hell was the Legion of Doom attempting to do really? Say they managed to win one episode, what would they do exactly?
I think that's how I think about villains, evil, enemies, etc.; they're just kind of there to sneer and get shot at. Sad, but kind of true.
posted by Monstro D. Whale at
6:14 PM
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I think maybe I had a thing for Wonder Woman.
Btw, ever see that Budweiser/superfriends mash-up?
I just finished editing an art magazine. My brain is swiss cheesed. Other than that, I think they're going for the Oligarchy, and yes, they plan on chopping off all our heads. It does not matter to them if we are rational beings or not. Rather, they believe we are irrational and our lives have no value. After all, we shave, we cross our legs in front of each other and take no offense at the gesture, we don't regard rape as a way of settling familial debts, and we eat unclean meat. Perhaps I've missed some of their complaints.
You know, maybe, but on the other hand, one of my six friends in Massachusetts is Jordanian. He's from a Muslim culture and for the most part he's incredibly liberal. He's a hell of a lot more liberal than I am. He's hyphenated his last name to take on his wife's name. If he's from a region with this crazy misoginistic, violently religious culture then he must have really deviated from that.
Also, I've read Palestinian writers and they seem pretty rational. I realize that they might just be the intellectuals, but for the most part they seem fairly rational.
It might be true that religious extemists are crazy, but then, what about the religious extremists in Kansas or Idaho? What about militias? I certainly hope that the rest of the world doesn't think that's us.
At the same time, check out Sean Baby's Superfriends page at http://www.seanbaby.com/super.htm. It's f'ing hillarious.
The saber-rattling fundamentalists are certainly not the majority of Muslims. Nor are the majority of Christians saber-rattling fundamentalists. Who was it that said that if Americans ever became fanatical about something, it would be the destruction of fanatics that Americans would be fanatical about? Or something like that...
It's a little easier to understand the fanaticism as a product of the red meme, as it relates to Ken Wilbur's integral theory and the psychological development (or lack thereof) of people in societies, and perhaps of societies as a whole.
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