Liberty: Demonology

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In the modern age, we see basic pedestrian stability being undermined by news stories about Internet hackers corrupting vital online data and disgruntled post office workers opening machine-gun fire on their co-workers. In older times, we knew of stories of rogue knights and fierce warlords ransacking feudal manors and creating power-dominions.

American films such as Satisfaction and Happiness explore a basic human curiosity about the nature of hope, yearning, and angst (or anguish).

We may seek out fantastic artistic images of the bizarre or other-worldly (e.g., The Outer Limits, Superman, etc.) to soothe our anxieties about unrequited ambitions in the tangible world.

The Christian Bible states that at the End of Days, the AntiChrist (the adversary of Jesus Christ), the mysterious harlot of Babylon (the nemesis of civics), and the Dragon (or the Devil, the adversary of God and humanity) will ominously rise to social prestige and draw men away from diligence and faith.

Maybe our 'relics' or totems of sociological profiteerism (e.g., U.S. dollar bills printed with the faces of American presidents printed on them) represent a metaphysical focus on human liberty.

After all, the idea of liberty helps us feel better about capitalism, doesn't it? So why do we make paranoia-calculation films such as Army of Darkness?

There must be a link between exorcism and banking.



Army of Darkness (Film)

 

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Doctor Doom

Here are some doom-themed eeriness-presentations in comics cinema and Internet doodling.


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Oswald Cobblepot (Penguin) was an incredible underworld crime-demon and was facing the rise of a new rival in the crime-world named Roderick Kingsley (Hobgoblin). Penguin was sweating in his boots, and Hobgoblin was throwing pumpkin-bombs at his fortress. Penguin sent his goons out on hang-gliders to wrestle down the jet-glider soaring Hobgoblin to the ground. Two succeeded, and the mighty maniac fell to the ground and was carried off in chains to Penguins' lair.

Hobgoblin awoke in Penguin's under-water fortress beneath Gotham's basement. The ghoul asked Hobgoblin why he was challenging his dominion and authority over crime in Gotham. Hobgoblin replied that he was trying to spur on the Apocalypse, which he believed was arriving soon with the appearance of the AntiChrist and Penguin was not doing enough to make Gotham City mad. Penguin proposed the two villains work together to rob Gotham's Federal Bank on St. Patrick's Day. The two dressed up in festive Irish-green costumes and claimed to be diplomats from the Irish Embassy video-taping a PR event which would be wrapped up by entering police in 20 minutes; however, no police arrived and the two made off with $10 million.

Hobgoblin and Penguin were in Tahiti planning the events of the Apocalypse to come. They decided to hype the popularity of American film star Tom Cruise (who was planning a film about a Salmonella FDA Conspiracy in New York City in the 1970s) with anonymously sent in fan donations from their impressive personal piggy-banks. They also sent letters poisoned with anthrax to the American President and the Gotham mayor. The letters warned that more super-terrorism would arrive unless Spider-Man was on-hand to confront them in a battle arena. Fortunately, Spider-Man (the mutated web-soaring human spider) was on-hand to tie up Penguin and Hobgoblin in cobwebs and haul them off to a Research Institute. Thank goodness for spiders!

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The Art of Disaster


There must be a way to coordinate ideas about free will and liberty with thoughts about the dangers of anarchy and lawlessness, especially since these days terrorism-themed comic book storylines are very popular.

Is the AntiChrist a terrorist?