Because the younger members of our family keep current on
cultural events, they manage to keep us current as well, as best they can. So when the super-hero movies such as
Ironman, Thor, Captain America, and The Avengers appear, the young ones make
sure we have an opportunity to see them.
Of course we loved the humor and imagination and visual
imagery in all the movies, and really each one had underlying messages or
lessons or thought-provoking passages, whatever you want to call them.
But last night we older ones watched The Avengers for the
first time, and its underlying story struck me as perhaps the most topical of
all right now. Topical? Really?
Yep. Because for me, the
super-heroes also were like the various factions in our country right
now. For the most part, those factions
are decent and well-intentioned, but so caught up in their own personas that
just like the Avengers, they tend to work against each other rather than
together.
Yet at the end, when presented with truly horrific
opponents, they came together, supported each other, and saved themselves and The
World. Our world. The world that right now is dealing with
horrific opponents in the form of violent climate events, immigration worries, huge
economic concerns, terrorist plots, well, everyone knows the litany.
So wouldn’t it be wonderful if all the members of
government, legislative, judicial, administrative, actually watched The
Avengers movie, actually got the message there, and actually decided, at least
in the majority, to roll up their sleeves and work together to save the world? Now, that would make a really great movie!
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