I just want to say that the “Is ‘Avengers’ America’s Iliad?” from video in the OP is making me seethe like you wouldn’t believe rn (right now). Jesus fucking Christ, how insufferable can journalists get?
The part that’s really making me upset is that, to an extent, they might be right. There are so many great works of American literature, drama, and film, but for the most part those works don’t serve as a cultural touchstone anymore. Homer’s influence was apparent in practically every aspect of Greek culture; it was their touchstone, it was their base of reference for analogies, symbols, and so on. As much as it pains me to acknowledge this, that is increasingly becoming true of capeshit in the US, as the OP video shows.
We’re replacing mythology — stories born out of the genuine spirit of a people — with entertaining but ultimately empty stories told by Hollywood hebrews, designed with the primary intention of extracting as many shekels as possible, and the secondary intention of engineering new social values. What will this mean for us?