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Originally Posted by WednesdayAddams
While it's an interesting theory and has some actual basis for argument, a lot of very silly people have taken it to its extreme end of absurdity. From those people come the questions that are often misattributed to all of philosophy such as 'how do you know you're not really a butterfly dreaming that it's human?' |
I'm one of those very silly people. What is real, that I drove Tom Petty's Ferrari into a ditch, shat whole cobs of corn crawling with worms, then threw eggs at that tow truck driver, or that I escaped from that reality by dreaming I'm a desert rat living in an RV who torments people on internet message boards for fun? Both are equally surreal from an unobtainable objective viewpoint.
That said, no discussion of Postmodernism is complete without discussion of the shift from the Hero - nobly defending and protecting the system or state with clean living and handsomness, to the Anti-hero, the rebel, the subverter of the system. Frank Miller's 'Dark Night Returns' is an admirable example of this paradigm, with the noble hero Batman transformed into a Dark, Tormented creature of the shadows.