[UA] Sacrafice your friends for food

[Russell Rayburn]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Andrew Winnenberg <awinnenb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Russell Rayburn <rusrayburn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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 thought people did do that. That's why archetypes have different
> faces, isn't it? You might be using Dexter, or Elvis, as a model, but
> you're aiming for an archetypal idea that was a part of their
> personality or public persona.

Perhaps that's one way to look at it.  On the other hand, the various
masks tend to redefine the archetype to the point that it's almost
completely new.

Take Dexter.  A serial killer who kills serial killers, has a wife,
stepkids, steady job... a far cry from Buffalo Bill ( for instance ).
Are they really both channeling the Dark Stalker?

Even comparing the Jack Nicholson / Heath Legder Jokers is
interesting... are they both masks of the same archetype?  Really?
Slapstick and game theory fit in the same archetype?

Ok... that last one I threw in because I just love the image of the
older Joker-Avatars running around with acid-filled squirting flowers
and smoke bombs while the newer Jokers hunt them down as heretics with
knives, grenades and firearms.



-- 
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