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Andrew's watching The Incredibles, still one of the best adaptations of Watchmen. It's been a few years since I saw it, and I find myself worrying about who's going to help people navigate insurance-company bureaucracies once Mr. Incredible goes back to being a superhero.
There've been a lot of posts recently along the lines of "you always identified with the Rebel Alliance/Dumbledore's Army/etc, or fantasizes about going back in time to help fight Nazis -- now's the time to put your money where your mouth is."
I may be overly optimistic, but I don't think it's necessarily cowardice that stops people -- it's not knowing where to start. The Rebellion is already well up and running in Episode IV; Harry and his allies are already wizards in training; in WWII movies somebody always has a contact in the Resistance they can go to. There are fewer stories that show an underground being set up from scratch, or someone doing the paperwork so the people being ferried to a free country can apply to stay there and not get deported back. Chiune Sugihara and Nicholas Winton -- and the less-famous people who worked with them -- their stories are more complicated and have fewer action scenes, I get it. But I'm trying to help some others set up a Canadian equivalent to www.holyfucktheelection.com, and We could do with some nuts-and-bolts inspiration right now.
There've been a lot of posts recently along the lines of "you always identified with the Rebel Alliance/Dumbledore's Army/etc, or fantasizes about going back in time to help fight Nazis -- now's the time to put your money where your mouth is."
I may be overly optimistic, but I don't think it's necessarily cowardice that stops people -- it's not knowing where to start. The Rebellion is already well up and running in Episode IV; Harry and his allies are already wizards in training; in WWII movies somebody always has a contact in the Resistance they can go to. There are fewer stories that show an underground being set up from scratch, or someone doing the paperwork so the people being ferried to a free country can apply to stay there and not get deported back. Chiune Sugihara and Nicholas Winton -- and the less-famous people who worked with them -- their stories are more complicated and have fewer action scenes, I get it. But I'm trying to help some others set up a Canadian equivalent to www.holyfucktheelection.com, and We could do with some nuts-and-bolts inspiration right now.