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Originally Posted by TokuKnight89

An "Alan-Moore-Was-Right" type of article which isn't making me feel good right now, but it is food for thought at least.

https://comicbook.com/comics/news/al...roes-watchmen/

I do wonder if it's oversimplifying things.

Of course, this is an oversimplification. In fact, if anything, it is a deliberate or accidental omission of fundamentals that causes the whole construct to go in the wrong direction in the first place. Superheroes are not only a fantasy about power and building an ideal world, but also about morality. We root for Batman not because we like the BDSM bat suit, but because he does good things.
In essence, comics are fairy tales for those who consider themselves too cool for fairy tales.
In fact, I would say that Moore's main problem (and that of other comics authors) is a lack of faith in the wisdom of the people. He considers the masses to be a mindless crowd, lemmings running into the abyss. For him, any decision they make is a priori the worst, and therefore he must make decisions for them. Returning to the topic of the site, it is akin to the amorphous society in Geats, which doesn't give a damn about survival games that sound like faces in the sky, even when they are forced there.
Returning to the topic of the site, it is akin to the amorphous society in Geats, which does not give a damn about survival games, proclaiming face in the sky, even when they are dragged there by force.
Also, there are several obvious holes in the article, namely the unfounded identification of superheroes and leaders. I think almost no Spiderman fans would want to live in a world created by this slacker.
There is also an obvious misunderstanding of the difference between strength and power. That is, by analogy with the article, looking at the current situation in the United States, there is a cowardly weakling in power, whose whole life contradicts the ideas that he promotes. And yet, it was he who was raised to the top. So the rise of superheroes to power would lead either to maximum resistance, or to the transformation of superheroes into a ruling elite with minimal differences from the current one.