Another grey day, thank god for the Dark Knight
I was wondering last night after watching and very much enjoying Batman Begins, what a Communist or Socialist would make of the central tenet that compassionate capitalism is at the heart of the Dark Knight’s struggle to save Gotham City from itself.
Without his billions where would Bruce Wayne be? He is after all the most human of the superheroes to emerge from the late 1930’s. He is anything but super without his many ‘toys’. Its his wealth, inherited, rather than earned through hard graft that enables him to save the day.
Just a thought.
Tour de France starts Saturday, now that is superhuman!
Sean
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Er, Batman is *fiction* Sean!
So is most of what Charles Dickens wrote, yet its what he said about the society he lived in that is interesting. That’s what I was trying to get people to think about. Think beyond the story itself, which of course is *fiction*.
Batman…
I prefer Darth Vader…. he is HAWT
hmmm, the force is strong with this one.
I’ve been kicking around the idea that Batman’s superpower is his immunity to money. Normal people are killed are bullets, but Superman is not. Most people are corrupted by money, but Batman is not. Sure, he didn’t work *for* his money, but he’s working *with* it. He’s earning his money as he spends it, which is not something ordinary mortals can do.
Superman is super-powered physically (and, perhaps, socially) — he defies the normal rules for human physical behavior. Batman is super-powered economically — he defies the normal rules for human (or Western) economic behavior.
*turns to the dark side*
you know hes hawt… check the heavy breathing…
*viiiiiiiiiikkkkkkkkkkkkkkiiiiiiiiii*
miaowwwwww