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<\/a><\/div>\nAs is often the case, I feel that popular culture is often more revealing than high culture of the moods and currents currently flowing in our civilisation.Captain America represents old values, things that we have forgotten. <\/p>\n
<\/a><\/div>\nThis is the struggle that we face. An attempt to restore forgotten virtues in a culture that has become corrupted. From the ‘ur-text’ <\/i>of “After Virtue”: <\/p>\n …if the tradition of the virtues was able to survive the horrors of the last dark ages, we are not entirely without grounds for hope. This time however the barbarians are not waiting beyond the frontiers; they have already been governing us for quite some time. And it is our lack of consciousness that constitutes part of our predicament.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The reason why I like popular culture such as this is because here they are at least conscious of the problem, and seem able to explore it freely. (See here <\/a>for an article about the riots, see here <\/a>for a bit more on the mythology of Cap)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Took my eldest to watch Cap the other day, I thought it was rather good. As is often the case, I feel that popular culture is often more revealing than high culture of the moods and currents currently flowing in … Continue reading