Fighting crime is a purely private activity, and Spiderman himself functions as a kind of private vigilante, making up for the failures of the supposed “public good” provisions that the state never gets around to providing. It is these themes – the chaos of the city, the inability of government to stop crime, our dependence out private solutions – that connect with us. The equivalent of Spiderman in the real world is the not the mayor, police chief, or cop on the beat, but the private security agency, the entrepreneur who started the gated community, the manufacturer of the stun gun. [Full Article]
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A Class Act
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Great article. However, in the movie Spiderman 2, it seems as if Ozcorp was actually trying to create an invention that would benefit humanity, and it was their employee who screwed up and made it something detrimental.
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