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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Hero

The fact that random acts of injustice happens proves that there is no Justice

I was watching a documentary on the history channel called "Batman Unmasked" it was a study in the psychology of Batman and his rouge Gallery. I watched figuring that it would be interesting with the Dark Knight coming out Friday. As I watched my mind was blown, the show asked you to reshape the fundamental aspects of humanity and right and wrong. Batman is a man who needs a way to fight injustice outside of what is acceptable by contemporary society. It showed that his villains are also regular human being pushed to the extremes just in the opposite direction. The line between right and wrong, good and evil is very close, and very hazy. The asked who was the real person Batman or Bruce Wayne. An average person would say that Bruce the playboy billionaire is the real person, but what need would a man as Bruce regardless of the tragedies he has endured in his life need to do the things that Batman does. I learned that the true person ALWAYS is the masked person. The things that we do knowing that we will not be held responsible for are actions is who we really are. Bruce Wayne troubled man hurt by the death of his parents is a man who can and will fight crime and injustice in the world, but he can not do that as himself he has friends, family, and many was to be hurt by the men he fights in the dark. As batman he is free from this burden he can do what he feels as right and necessary. Thus Batman is the true identity. This made me look at myself I can associate with heroes perhaps that is why I am such a fan of Superheros. I lack purpose for my life in my everyday life I am not doing the thing that I truly believe need to be done I am not making the world a better place. I sit around and watch TV and go to the movies and hang out with friend and I am not making the world better. I want and need to make this world better I have to leave it better than what I came into. I watch all of the injustice and pain and suffering in the world and it truly hurts me I honestly want to fight against it some how. I need to help people and I am not. On the other side of that coin I do see the pain and suffering of the world I also don't see anyone who even cares to try and help these people everyone is so focused on themselves and their tiny seemingly unimportant issues that they can't raise a finger to help people so why should I maybe I should look out only for myself. In this I find my self associating with the Villains. So I ask myself if I could hide behind a mask who would I be Batman or Scarecrow. The fact that I have to even ask myself this scares me. Who am I behind a mask? I don't want to jump off buildings like Batman or roam the night, but I do want to fight injustice so in that the quote at the beginning can not be true justice does exist, but it is harder to find than I first thought. What makes a man evil and what makes man good I think that there is no answer the line is way too far in the grey zone for me to actually know except of course in extreme example such as Pol Pot or Hitler. The fact that it is so far in the grey also means that the line between good and evil is extremely thin much too easy to cross.