Lex Luthor literally becomes president in many versions of the Superman cartoons.
The idea of a rich billionaire with a narcissist Messiah complex with a bone to pick with heroes and actual helpful people that becomes popular and eventually the US President is practically a trope. Apparently this generation has forgotten the message.
You assume the people who learned the message forgot it rather than the people who failed to learn it continuing to vote without understand the repercussions of their actions
Like the way some people see cyberpunk, it’s not so much that they forgot is that they missed the point completely. They see an author warning about a dystopia and they just want the shining neon lights. Or as Confucius put it “when a wise man points at the moon the fool examines the finger.”
Lex Luthor literally becomes president in many versions of the Superman cartoons.
The idea of a rich billionaire with a narcissist Messiah complex with a bone to pick with heroes and actual helpful people that becomes popular and eventually the US President is practically a trope. Apparently this generation has forgotten the message.
I mean, by any objective measure Luthor is a much better President than Trump.
You assume the people who learned the message forgot it rather than the people who failed to learn it continuing to vote without understand the repercussions of their actions
“President? Do you know how much power I would have to give up to be President?”
Hey bro, why you gotta post the thing I was getting ready to post?
Like the way some people see cyberpunk, it’s not so much that they forgot is that they missed the point completely. They see an author warning about a dystopia and they just want the shining neon lights. Or as Confucius put it “when a wise man points at the moon the fool examines the finger.”