Sam Staley | Wednesday May 23, 2018 at 9:56 AM PDT | Comments Off on Avengers: Infinity War Drops the Population Bomb
Avengers, Infinity War: In a world of finite resources, people need to die.
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Sam Staley | Friday June 5, 2015 at 11:01 AM PDT | Comments Off on The Avengers of Civil Society?
While watching the summer blockbuster Avengers: Age of Ultron, I had trouble shaking thoughts from two books not usually connected to action heroes, let alone movies: Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments and C.S. Lewis’s The Four Loves. I doubt writer/director Joss Whedon had these social philosophers in mind when he was writing…
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