tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903320.post111577877443245382..comments2023-08-15T01:24:39.187-03:00Comments on The Other Side of Truth: The ETH and Pop CulturePaul Kimballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08804735930733797952noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903320.post-1115903651884846802005-05-12T10:14:00.000-03:002005-05-12T10:14:00.000-03:00If I had hair (or could borrow yours -- well, neve...If I had hair (or could borrow yours -- well, never mind), I could let it down, like Rapunzel and escape this Ivory Tower, which is really not ivory but faux-ivory, plastic actually -- or maybe it's Plastic Man pretending to be a tower.<BR/><BR/>RichRRRGrouphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04875523970644487204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903320.post-1115870012858887842005-05-12T00:53:00.000-03:002005-05-12T00:53:00.000-03:00Rich:Plastic Man??I think you may need to brush up...Rich:<BR/><BR/>Plastic Man??<BR/><BR/>I think you may need to brush up on your iconic superheroes.<BR/><BR/>And Buck and Flash existed in a milieu that could be real, but Hal Jordan does not? <BR/><BR/>Huh??<BR/><BR/>I think you've been living in your Ivory Tower down there in Ft. Wayne for too long! :-)<BR/><BR/>PaulPaul Kimballhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08804735930733797952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903320.post-1115869336081883022005-05-12T00:42:00.000-03:002005-05-12T00:42:00.000-03:00Not so, my friend Paul.If you peruse Crawford's En...Not so, my friend Paul.<BR/><BR/>If you peruse Crawford's Encyclopedia of Comic Books, you'll get what I mean.<BR/><BR/>Superman, Green Lantern, Plastic Man, et al. were and are great icons, for baby boomers perhaps.<BR/><BR/>But Jung's "Man and His Symbols" show that they didn't affect the popular culture because they were utter fantasies whereas Buck, and Brick, and Flash were normal guys who were in a milieu that could be real.<BR/><BR/>They couldn't fly on their own nor stretch out of shape at will, or explode into a massive green muscleman. They were guys subject to the natural laws of nature.<BR/><BR/>That's what rules popular culture, not the specific fantasy culture that you are enamored of -- Erin Gray indeed, and Zorgrot!<BR/><BR/>They've brainwashed you and your hormones, in Erin's case...<BR/><BR/>RichRRRGrouphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04875523970644487204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903320.post-1115867231671373542005-05-12T00:07:00.000-03:002005-05-12T00:07:00.000-03:00Sorry, Rich, but Buck Rogers doesn't hold a candle...Sorry, Rich, but Buck Rogers doesn't hold a candle to Superman, who was the greatest American popular fictional character of the 20th century.<BR/><BR/>Pop culture is an evolutionary thing - this is why GL is so interesting. In the 1940s, his powers were based on magic (not majic!). By the 1960s, they were based on alien science. Quite the evolution, which the kids in the 1960s took to the next step in years to come.<BR/><BR/>PaulPaul Kimballhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08804735930733797952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903320.post-1115862075181575532005-05-11T22:41:00.000-03:002005-05-11T22:41:00.000-03:00The pop culture of the 50s (and early 60s) was lea...The pop culture of the 50s (and early 60s) was leaden by persons who still remembered Brick Bradford, Flash, and Buck, while the kids were reading D.C. comics, and trading them, but didn't have any effect on "pop culture."<BR/><BR/>Pop culture was just that: Pop's culture, until 1963 or thereabouts when things changed...<BR/><BR/>RichRRRGrouphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04875523970644487204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903320.post-1115838569516904542005-05-11T16:09:00.000-03:002005-05-11T16:09:00.000-03:00Rich:I'd be curious to see what evidence you have ...Rich:<BR/><BR/>I'd be curious to see what evidence you have for the assertion that Little Nemo and Buck Rogers resonated with a broader age demographic than the DC comic characters.<BR/><BR/>It's irrelevant to the central point of my little post. But I'd be interested, nonetheless.<BR/><BR/>PaulPaul Kimballhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08804735930733797952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10903320.post-1115784496402765752005-05-11T01:08:00.000-03:002005-05-11T01:08:00.000-03:00I think we have to remember Flash Gordon, Buck Rog...I think we have to remember Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, and Little Nemo.<BR/><BR/>These comic book characters and movie serialist entities resonated with a broader (age) demographic than the D.C. Comic Book heroes, who were mostly adopted by adolescents and pre-adolescents.<BR/><BR/>Rich ReynoldsRRRGrouphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04875523970644487204noreply@blogger.com