I love silencing
the sentry and hero versus throngs
as action themes. The whole point is the extraordinary making short work of the
ordinary.
The underdog to me is not the lowly besting the mighty. A
hero is never the common man. He is bigger and stronger than the lowly. He may
be a diamond in the rough but he was always a diamond. He may be an ugly
duckling but he was always a swan. He may crawl and climb from the bottom but
he crawls and climbs to escape where he never belonged.
The struggle of good against evil is never class
struggle. There are heroes below and nonentities above but that is neither here
nor there. Worldly station is not spiritual relevance.
Fire burns whether for good or for evil. It consumes whether
for better or worse.
Heroes and villains are the fire that lights the human
condition. The common are the fuel to be consumed. Victims feed villainy. The sentries and throngs feed heroes.
Politics is indeed a battleground in the struggle of good
against evil but it is not the actual fight. The clash is beyond one set of
rules against another.
Reality and fiction may differ in their details but never
in their gist. Good fiction is the good in reality and bad fiction is its
dysfunctions.
The first villain is always oneself. Our base nature is
its foot soldiers. We must overcome the sentries
and throngs in our struggle to thwart
the mastermind that is our sinister
intentions. We may have to contend with the elite
henchmen who are the traumas and sophistries that challenge our sincerity.
We may have to battle the monsters
that are our primal fears. The hero must prevail or all is lost.
To be nothing and do nothing is the common evil. In
fiction it is the useless foot soldiers
of villainy silenced as sentries
and slaughtered as throngs. Take
heed: a nonentity’s weapons and uniform are in the service of a mastermind’s
nefarious agenda. The mindless think what they are told to think and act
accordingly.
I love the silencing
the sentry and hero versus throngs
as celebrations of excellence to the shame of mediocrity. The struggle of good
against evil in very real terms is never better exemplified.
The thing that I really like the most about this is how one enity serves or feeds another. The victims feed the villains, the henchmen serve the villains ultimately making them more powerful, and the heroes feed on the henchmen to save the victims. These lines of themselves are the worldly explanation for a spiritual battle that shifts about in relatively the same ways, and as always, your perception of the these things that you love are more than mere child's play--they are indicative of all good and evil int he world. Great blog.
ReplyDeleteThank you. Yes, our fiction is more real than the "reality" touted by those who mean to make henchman out of us. The heroes among us shall make short work of these gullible underlings.
DeleteI like what you said about the hero climbing to escape from where he never belonged, all too often people can't seem to grasp that concept. Just because you are born in poverty does not mean you are destined to be nothing all your life, a hero is someone who breaks the invisible mold that the world attempts to shape them with. Very insightful and inspirational blog.
ReplyDeleteThanks. Yes, we must adventure whether the trip begins in castle or in a hut or in a ditch. Either way, the destination is the top of the mountain even if we have longer to get there.
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