Sunday, September 06, 2015

The Myth of a SuperHero

America officially has been inducted into the Superhero Hall of Fame.  Sony's commitment to blur the boundary between realism and animation has succeeded.  We are a mash of neurosis, dreams, and the elite forces of superheros, but they aren't real.  Sony would like for you to believe they are real.  That was their intent, to blur the boundary between realism and animation.  How would a maladjusted child know the difference?  Hour upon hour of rote playing of violent warlike video games is not reality.  With the condition of our public education system, environment, and economy kids are on their own.  Go figure when a neglected soul decides to burn out in a blaze of glory.  Superheros are not a practical example for reality, and yet they have proliferated.  Not only are superheros found in graphic novels, film, television, and 'them internets,' they are controlling our lives via corporate America and academia.  I almost have a doctorate degree in music, and all around me are musicians frantically trying to reinvent the wheel.  "Relax, mon.  Music is important, but it is not the most important thing."  Today if you resume doesn't read like that of a superhero, evidently you are not qualified to have a job.  Can we get real please?  I am sick to my stomach of reading exaggerated resumes, VITA files, and biographies.  It could begin with college professors.  I would like to know if they have anything to offer.  I don't need to hear about performances all over the world, publications, and grants.  If they are so busy attaining this, how can they make time for teaching?  How can they make time to impart grassroots knowledge which could help a student grow?  It's ludicrous, and it is not real.  These are fabricated images which lie to the public in the name of selfishness.  Maybe we can dispense with the superheros for a minute and concentrate on doing things that will save the earth.  Maybe we can save the refugees?  That is not superhero material.  It doesn't stroke your ego.  Where is the Clinton Foundation?  In a time of crisis in Europe, where are these charitable foundations?  Bill?  Bill.  Mr. Clinton?  Mr. Gates?  Google?  Here is an opportunity of philanthropical importance.  Save some refugees?  Jimmy Carter would be in.  A Bush daughter?  We're too busy trying to invent the autonomous automobile, which is not this at all.  Like Uber self-driving cars are merely a restructuring of previously predicted models of the future.  Call them trams?  Call them mono-rails?  Call them pods?  Whatever.  Electrically powered systems of mass transit already have been invented.  They are called trains and subways, but that is not millennial or fashionable.  How you make ta vehicle go where you want it to is with track.  Go figure?  Self-driving cars in Los Angeles?  Thank you, but no thanks.  "Spin City" is off the air and out of politics, but it has entered the world of corporate America.  I don't want to read about fictitious superheros.  I don't want to hear about how much money millennials have amassed.  It is peanuts, and it is boring.  It is based on an iPhone, and who cares?  When the wireless network in America comes crashing down, none of it will matter.  Sony has learned its lesson.  Blurring the lines between reality and animation is not a prudent model for survival.  When we pull our heads out of our asses, the stench of suffocating greenhouse gas not a superhero will create.  It is time to wake up America.  Resume:  Past Experience:  Cook, Gardener, Mechanic.  "You're hired."  The rest of you can sit in a room and play video games.