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Thursday, April 10, 2008
This is what Ian's combination of Irish and Jewish guilt brings him
I liked this article by Elisabeth Rappe about how being a geek doesn't mean you have to be a hot head. She asks for a more thoughtful, levelheaded discussion in the world of sci-fi and comics as opposed to knee-jerk complaining. An admirable stance. But there's a better reason for irate fans to change their ways than what Rappe suggests.
Understand that we live in a world where both these things are happening at the same time:
Haitians riot because they cannot afford food (with more disruptions happening in Morocco, Indonesia, Cameroon, Egypt and Pakistan)
Fans don't like how Dr. Doom speaks in one comic
I have hard time dealing with the fact that the world's population is so stratified that some are eating mud and others are getting passionate about the sentences we are meant to believe a man in a green cloak chooses to speak.
Say anything you want on the Internet, that's your right. I just wish people were more mindful of the fact that they find themselves in the top 5% of the world simply by having enough electricity being pumped into their house so they can use the Internet in the first place. I'm disappointed when I see people who have so much comfort - when so many don't - only for those same people to lose their perspective on reality due living in such abundance.
If it's not combined with action constantly fretting about the state of humanity isn't much better than complaining about whatever Green Lantern's up to. I just wish people would take in a larger view of the world and find some balance in what they communicate.
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