tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post8546300385084702131..comments2023-12-28T06:30:48.808-05:00Comments on The Rule of Reason: Monsters are the Real VictimsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-63410761373833441172017-05-15T16:44:13.852-04:002017-05-15T16:44:13.852-04:00From a friend who is unable to post here:
They ar...From a friend who is unable to post here:<br /><br />They are at it yet again with Kong, the "Alien" Aliens (or their great-grandmonsters by now), and probably everything in the Brazilian jungle encountered during the search for "The Lost city of Z", all of which I long ago chose to ignore. I find Kong particularly irritating, probably why I find mythical equivalents like "The Hulk" (= mindless rage) particularly annoying. Beasts cannot be "heroes" or "anti-heroes" or "villains" or anything but beasts, because beasts cannot think and therefore cannot make rational moral choices or choose to correct irrational ones. They are Nothingness that roars. Nihilists such as our "favorite" example, Negan, are alleged humans who have thrown in their lot with the beasts.<br /><br /><br />By the standard definition and "antihero" is unnecessary because a character who displays no heroic characteristics is either a villain or irrelevant. There is a rare subcategory of "antihero" that functionally encompasses characters who don't display characteristics of specifically Christian-morality based heroes, such as altrusim, selflessness, promiscuous "compassion", unearned guilt, "faith" , etc., in other words, who refuse to root "heroism" in the commands of an imaginary god. They vary in quality, but an even smaller subcategory are tough b*****ds who decimate actual villains in the name of implacable justice and usually get thrown on the sacrificial altar for the greater glory of the Little Lord Jesus archetypes. Those I usually like, or at least admire. <br />Edward Clinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12160209827969614964noreply@blogger.com