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It probably says something about the world rather than about me that I had to go to titanic efforts and literally move the entire blog to Africa in order to avoid getting sucked into the cycle of horse-race commentary on the US election, but now we're something like two weeks into the campaign in my own country and it literally hasn't occurred to me to have a thought about it. In unrelated news, isn't it a bit funny that there are roughly equal numbers of superheros and supervillains, since psychopathic murderers are actually quite rare in the population as a whole?
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Not sure - are there fewer or more superheroes than you would expect?
ReplyDeleteI don't think that it's remotely true that there are as many heroes as villains. The Eponymous Hero fights a different villain each week in his/her comic, sometimes several, and even with the reuse of villains by other heroes there are many villains -even more regular, canonical villains - for every hero.
ReplyDeleteBatman - Joker, Riddler, Two-face, etc etc
Supes - Luthor, Braniac, Toyman, etc etc
Spidey - Doctor O, Green G, Alligator, etc etc
This if anything reinforces your point, since it puts the psychopath/normal (assuming superheroes to be normal, which I admit is something of a jump) at about 20/1,but it does raise the question of whether you read as many comics as you ought.
Not really.
ReplyDeletenow we're something like two weeks into the campaign in my own country and it literally hasn't occurred to me to have a thought about it.
ReplyDeleteI think that's because there's nothing worth thinking about it. Even though the campaign coverage moves at Twitter speed, there's not likely to be anything earth-changing between now and May 6th. Labour is knackered as a governing party; the Tories are unconvincing as a potential governing party; the Lib Dems are Lib Dems. You might get the odd bit of off-message whatnot from PPCs who haven't had their individualism beaten out of them, but the effect is going to be minimal.
My gut feeling is that the voting public actually quite like the idea of a hung parliament and the ensuing horse-trading, having not had one in recent memory, and are doing their best to bring it about.
I think the clear explanation is that the villains are more numerous than the heroes because they're less super -- there's a reason the superheroes always win. If there were as many villains as there are in the comics, and they were as powerful as the heroes, life on earth would be impossible and they'd be battling over a lifeless wasteland. (I don't actually read superhero comics -- from the rest of what I read you'd think I would, but no. Possibly there's more battling over a lifeless wasteland than I think.)
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