[FRIAM] water, again (was murder offsets)

[jon zingale]

"""
But another aspect in which they can be problematic is, how is it that these
special individuals are using their power? Because one of the things that
I’m always interested in, when thinking about stories, is, is a story about
reinforcing the status quo, or is it about overturning the status quo? And
most of the most popular superhero stories, they are always about
maintaining the status quo. Superheroes, they supposedly stand for justice.
They further the cause of justice. But they always stick to your very
limited idea of what constitutes a crime, basically the government idea of
what constitutes a crime.

Superheroes pretty much never do anything about injustices perpetrated by
the state. And in the developed world, certainly, you can, I think, make a
good case that injustices committed by the state are far more serious than
those caused by crime, by conventional criminality. The existing status quo
involves things like vast wealth inequality and systemic racism and police
brutality. And if you are really committed to justice, those are probably
not things that you want to reinforce. Those are not things you want to
preserve.
"""

Additionally, this subject is exactly taken up by Moore's "Watchmen". Alas,
the film version neutered Moore's text of its nuance, non-trivially changed
the ending, and dropped the intentionally parallel and embedded story of the
black freighter. Arguably, Moore seems to have anticipated Chiang's
criticism.



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