A Book Written by Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence trys to explain how dilusioned America is by slandering one of our greatest fictional characters. as written by columist Fred Edwords,
"Beginning where their 2002 book, The Myth of the American Superhero, leaves off, the authors of this new work summarize and then expand upon their previous argument that superhero tales--ubiquitous in popular cinema, television, literature, and other entertainments--express antidemocratic values. Authors Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence add that, in expressing such values, these tales help foster "a civil religion that seeks to redeem the world for democracy, but by means that transcend democratic limits on the exercise of power." They argue that the United States is a nation with "a mythic addiction to stories of community impotence and superhero redemption" which renders Americans amenable to "surrendering personal responsibility to savior figures." This Captain America complex, as they term it, shows itself in the way Americans "so often feel chafed by the limits of the Constitution" and are thus willing, for example, to hand tremendous war powers over to a president who promises to use those powers selflessly in an ongoing global and domestic crusade against "evil."
Makes me wonder is these guys had a good child hood!!
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