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A Response to John Ebert’s Review of Cloverfield
By William Irwin Thompson
As always, John, an interesting spin on the ordinary. Yes, catastrophes are coming our way, which is why I feature them so strongly in my essay on “Catastrophist Governance and the Need for a Tricameral Legislature.”
But another point is that our culture has been kept in arrested development by the media at the stage of the 13 year old–the age of the comic book for my generation–witness the recent acne outburst of comic book movies. The 13 year old is not a child and is not yet an adult capable of dealing with threats. So it imagines itself to be a superhero in the same way Piaget once noted that 13 year olds generate life histories of fame for themselves and already see their statues up in the park. So the superhero is a preteen mythic unconscious projection. Read the rest of this entry »
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