What happens when a hard right creator is left to invent his own character embodying his political philosophy with no checks on his control? You get a character no one likes or cares about And the creator just sorta runs and hides from a world that rejected him for his desire to create boring stories. What happens when a right leaning director is given creative control of a film franchise and universe that inherently leans towards moral absolutism? You get the only recent superhero movie I've turned off after ten minutes What happens when an art student fails in the middle of a cultural zeitgeist between two massive world conflicts? He becomes history's greatest villain. By pouring his passion instead into rhetoric and careful image manipulation. I'm not saying there's a straight line from Hitler through Ditko to Zack Snyder. I'm saying we should, and do to an extent, look at these parallels and notice the common connections. I like the article. I don't agree with the author 100% on everything but he was on to something.
I tend to balance Graeber out with Niall Ferguson.. I followed up The Utopia of Rules with The Square in the Tower