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LOL well not trying to destroy it. It's just one of those things that initially I saw I didn't think about twice. But then I did think about it it just kind of tickled my brain in a funny way to think how anachronistic it all is now. That there are no phone booths anymore. Where does Superman change now? Does he just do it in an alley like a bum?

defender of the status quo. Anyone intent on making actual meaningful change is painted as criminally insane, no matter how good their points may be.

EDIT: More downvotes than upvotes, I think lemmy misunderstands my point. People like superman, I do too. The morals that superman is supposed to be the embodiment of are good ones to have. In a sane and rational world, everyone should look up to superman. We do not live in a sane and rational world. Superman's world is supposed to resemble the real world, but with super people in it, therefore the shittiness of the real world can be assumed to exist in superman's world. We have a wealthy businessman president, and he's not a genius playboy philanthropist, Both marvel and dc tell us that the real world is as good as it gets, and the real world sucks ass right now. Superman was envisioned by his original creators to be a super man, he who could punch the problems that us regular people can't. So where are the stories in which superman fights the problems us real people have? Those stories don't exist. Superman, in the modern era, exist to protect the status quo. Any real meaningful change is scary to the audience, and actively threatening to the companies that own the property. Therefore, superman licks the boot.