>>114288623>such an outlook on life would lead to nihilism and despairIn todays world. With political division, a collapsing economy, the opiod and mental health crisis, school shootings, Islamic terrorism, environmental collapse, and science having proven any form of transcendental religious meaning wrong. Nihilism and despair are the default settings for a lot of people.
Those symbols of hope people talk up in comic books aren't real, they're lies told to us by people in power. Superman isn't real, Batman isn't real, Wonder Woman isn't real, Captain America and the Avengers aren't real.But Joker? Joker is real. People like Joker really exist, and they're on the news literally every day. and both the news media and social media trafficks in them for clicks and views. Which only gives the Jokers in real life even more power.
