For the last little while, I've been contributing the occasional comment to the Jim Shooter blog, as a way of keeping my toe in the watery world of Comics.
On another matter, I, myself, just turned 48 years of age last Friday. The completion of four dozen circuits of crawling about this slippery planet, futilely trying to make sense of anything.
At this point, I'm not disillusioned enough to think I have an audience. If anyone visited cared a wit about the words contained herein, I'd be absolutely flabbergasted. It is not for readership that I write, then, it is for something else.
Recently, on December 13, 2011, I walked out on belief in God, and kept walking. With the death of Christopher Hitchens, I decided to take another look at "anti-theism" and found some clarity, if not happiness.
So what if there is no God, maybe humanity can take a smarter role in not letting our often-beautiful planet become a wasteland. Do comics play any role in saving our planet? Perhaps, in the absence of an "absolute creator," solutions may be found with those creative voices we have, which are not just writing for entertainment purposes.
Life is still serious business. Some might say unforgiving in every way. It is so unbelievably vast, from an individual human perspective. If comics have conveyed anything to modern culture, it is a belief that anything is possible, and as one famous character, Spider-Man (created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko), came to understand more than 48 years ago, "with great power come great responsibility."
Human beings may be small in their ability to change the world, but neither does it diminish their duty to make a difference, anyway they can.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
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