[UA] Sacrafice your friends for food

[Russell Rayburn]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:13 PM,  <teucer at pobox.com> wrote:
> Here's what I would do with this:

<snip stuff about comic books>

Look past the spandex.  Who are our heros as a society now?  What is
our mythology?

Bet you know who Jack Bauer is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Bauer

Also bet you've never heard of Michael Murphy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_P._Murphy

Our heros and villains are creations of media now.  Maybe it's been
that way for a while; perhaps since someone talked about Zeus.

So, why wouldn't someone try to ascend as The Joker?  Or as Dexter
Morgan, for that matter?


-- 
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate.
And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect
it.
  - Jack Handey