Eric Arthur Blair
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Bill Maher slammed for disrespecting Stan Lee, questioning the importance of comic books
About once a year loud mouth Bill Mahrer actually takes an intelligent stand. The last time I saw that he and Sam Harris were facing the awesome stupidity of Ben Affleck trying to defend Islam's tendency to kill those people that disagree with their insane religion.
This time Maher has dared to comment negatively on the outpouring of love for the departed Stan Lee and how he is being venerated now as some cultural icon when he really was just a guy who put out schlocky comic books which are a testament to our dumbed down society and how stupid the comic book reading public really is. I have to agree.
People used to actually read books and have thoughts and ideas and things. Now it's perfectly okay to be a comic book nerd who can explain why gamma rays turn Bruce Banner into the Hulk but have little to no idea of any importance. It's like the grown men that wear sports jerseys and baseball caps and listen to sports radio all day. They are virtual morons and pop culture makes their perpetual adolescence funny and a good thing. It is not.
It may be harmless to be a forty year old goofball who lives for his comic book collection and
fantasy football team but that's a brain that is operating at a severely reduced capacity
and that can't be a good thing.
It's okay to like Stan Lee. Let's not get carried away and think he is some untouchable sacred societal cow however. He's a man who spent his entire adult life making stupid comic books for stupid people. By the way, he was not "universally loved".
No one is universally loved.
About once a year loud mouth Bill Mahrer actually takes an intelligent stand. The last time I saw that he and Sam Harris were facing the awesome stupidity of Ben Affleck trying to defend Islam's tendency to kill those people that disagree with their insane religion.
This time Maher has dared to comment negatively on the outpouring of love for the departed Stan Lee and how he is being venerated now as some cultural icon when he really was just a guy who put out schlocky comic books which are a testament to our dumbed down society and how stupid the comic book reading public really is. I have to agree.
People used to actually read books and have thoughts and ideas and things. Now it's perfectly okay to be a comic book nerd who can explain why gamma rays turn Bruce Banner into the Hulk but have little to no idea of any importance. It's like the grown men that wear sports jerseys and baseball caps and listen to sports radio all day. They are virtual morons and pop culture makes their perpetual adolescence funny and a good thing. It is not.
It may be harmless to be a forty year old goofball who lives for his comic book collection and
fantasy football team but that's a brain that is operating at a severely reduced capacity
and that can't be a good thing.
It's okay to like Stan Lee. Let's not get carried away and think he is some untouchable sacred societal cow however. He's a man who spent his entire adult life making stupid comic books for stupid people. By the way, he was not "universally loved".
No one is universally loved.
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