Does Superhero Deconstruction Work?

A video contemplating the trend of superhero deconstruction, its relationship to skepticism of the "elite" and powerful, and whether such deconstruction is effective or misguided.
My final conclusion is that we have a tendency to deconstruct without understanding why the constructs were there in the first place. I explore why the superhero is so important, and why dismissing this aspirational model is offhandedly, as we are tempted in deconstruction to do, is misguided.

00:00 Intro
03:06 Developing Heroes
05:46 A Question, to What Makes a Hero?
07:31 Nuance and Objections
09:55 True Heroism
11:54 The Problem with Deconstruction, to Conclusion


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