(October 22, 2021 at 5:48 pm)brewer Wrote:(October 22, 2021 at 5:34 pm)Spongebob Wrote: I'm putting this comment here because it's the same issue, just a different manifestation.
DC Comics has announced that Superman's motto will be updated to "Truth, Justice and a better tomorrow", replacing "Truth, Justice and the American Way". I'm sure not everyone here is a comic book or Superman fan, but this has already started to stir controversy. To me this is an appropriate correction that is decades behind. I can understand that when Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster created the character it was a very different time, but Superman is an alien. He really should represent more than just one country. It was understandable that the illusion of the USA as a bastion of justice and fairness in the early 20th century made this possible but we all know better now. Keeping the slogan seems antiquated. Updating it is reasonable. And why do people get so hung up on antiquated ideas? Its a comic book character that two kids made up almost a century ago.
Yeah, IMO American Way probably needed to go, but 'a better tomorrow' is a bit limp for a superhero.
Maybe a true Superman would guide a declining America back to the virtues that made America great and the kind of America worthy of its principles...you know rather than give up on the nation that raised him into the generous and couragous being he became...give up for some cosmopolitain identity.
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