Yeah, our society favouring punishment over reparations is so sick and absurd and all we get to enjoy are those … bitter crumbs of schadenfreude …
Not that it will stop me cheering when bad things happen to bad (powerful) people but wouldn’t it be nice to live in a society that’d let us be magnanimous.
100%. I think that’s part of the human condition- in the absence of justice, vengeance is a hollow substitute. (It’s also the heart of good batman interpretations imo.)
P.S. while I’m talking about DC- it’s not cool to like optimistic superman stories over the dark, evil superman stories (including things like the boys, invincible, irredeemable etc.), but I do anyway. To me and many others, superman is a blatant metaphor for a global superpower/the US. Evil supermen stories are reflections of our current reality. Good supermen stories are ones of hope.
Yeah, our society favouring punishment over reparations is so sick and absurd and all we get to enjoy are those … bitter crumbs of schadenfreude … Not that it will stop me cheering when bad things happen to bad (powerful) people but wouldn’t it be nice to live in a society that’d let us be magnanimous.
100%. I think that’s part of the human condition- in the absence of justice, vengeance is a hollow substitute. (It’s also the heart of good batman interpretations imo.)
P.S. while I’m talking about DC- it’s not cool to like optimistic superman stories over the dark, evil superman stories (including things like the boys, invincible, irredeemable etc.), but I do anyway. To me and many others, superman is a blatant metaphor for a global superpower/the US. Evil supermen stories are reflections of our current reality. Good supermen stories are ones of hope.
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Thanks for the rec!