The concept of superheroes is romanticization of extra-judicial justice though. If it's not regular humans beating up criminals to get info it's superhumans taking information out of the equation to essentially be cartoon big brother. Or doing both.
Superheroes in a real sense is a ****ed concept. It has "good" relevance in the sense of expressing the desire for justice in the face of the systemic injustice that exists in every society that people recognize and feel powerless in the face of. But there's no way to divorce that from the fascist desire for a strong person to solve your problems for you.
This is why you don't take superhero stories literally as if they have any immediate answer to your problems. This is how we get police officers with Punisher skull stickers on their cars. So just forget about the stupid elements.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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