MHWilliams. Bruh.
http://www.usgamer.net/articles/why-do-we-love-fighting-the-power-in-fantasy
Can we discuss?
I feel like there have been certain recent uprisings Americans have showed solidarity toward, mainly the Arab Spring uprisings before they turned into civil wars, and even the one in Libya afterwards.
On the one hand, America is hard-wired to like the story of the underdog because that's its very origin story, but has trouble coming to terms with the fact that it is no longer the underdog. Movies and video games routinely have to write themselves around this fact.
Of course we can discuss. I have no problems with that.
I find with distance, we're more apt to lean on the ideals we stick by in fiction, "these people have been wronged, so they fight for their rights/freedoms/lives". In real life, we're more apt to find a rationalization that lessens our involvement in matters. So you have people who love fiction heroes and their actions- which are usually illegal - but look down on similar actions in real life. In
Amir0x's thread, there's not a single riot or revolutionary actions listed there that was loved by the mainstream citizenry at the time.
We like
the idea of decisive, bold, revolutionary action, but dislike the practice. Until time has passed, bringing with it distance. The Boston Tea Party, the Stonewall Riots, these are just things that happened in American history, they aren't real events. When faced with those, much of the public actually turns in the opposite direction.