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# Superheroes create cultural acceptance for popular oligarchy
- URL: https://werd.io/superheroes-create-cultural-acceptance-for-popular-oligarchy/
- Published: 2022-01-03T18:21:55.000Z
- Updated: 2022-01-03T18:21:55.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:24

“What does the current popularity of comic book superheroes, in culture, do?  
It reinforces the idea of a hierarchy of human, with the ubermensch as its apex. The superhero makes things alright without being asked. It looks after us, it protects, it cleans up the streets. It’s a parental role. \[...\] It says that the superhero is someone other – it ain’t us. And that’s a good thing, it says.”

\[[Link](https://interconnected.org/home/2022/01/03/batman)\]