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YouTube keeps showing me clips of showdowns. It knows I like them. Only I don't....
The participants may be dressed as cowboys or as gangsters or as knights in armour or even as high school kids- but the action always follows the same script. There's a bad guy or guys. They're mean and taunting and altogether horrible and then there's the good guy who is clearly the underdog and didn't ask for any of this. Everything is going the bad guy's way and then the good guy pulls a nifty move that proves him/her to be the fastest gun in the west/ the master/mistress of some spectacular martial art and the bad guys go the way of all flesh. Justice has been served.
Gotta love the reversal, but suppose the good guy hadn't had that totally remarkable skill. Why he/she would have been pasted all over the floor by now with bits sticking to the ceiling and dripping. The moral isn't that good always wins out but that in a mean old world you've got to be meaner than the opposition and the only way to defeat violence is with still more excellent violence. And I'm not having it. I reject it. I don't think we'll make a better world until we get over this foolishness.....
The participants may be dressed as cowboys or as gangsters or as knights in armour or even as high school kids- but the action always follows the same script. There's a bad guy or guys. They're mean and taunting and altogether horrible and then there's the good guy who is clearly the underdog and didn't ask for any of this. Everything is going the bad guy's way and then the good guy pulls a nifty move that proves him/her to be the fastest gun in the west/ the master/mistress of some spectacular martial art and the bad guys go the way of all flesh. Justice has been served.
Gotta love the reversal, but suppose the good guy hadn't had that totally remarkable skill. Why he/she would have been pasted all over the floor by now with bits sticking to the ceiling and dripping. The moral isn't that good always wins out but that in a mean old world you've got to be meaner than the opposition and the only way to defeat violence is with still more excellent violence. And I'm not having it. I reject it. I don't think we'll make a better world until we get over this foolishness.....
