The world needs another look at.

This week, I finally got my hands on a copy of Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. Of course I've seen the movie, which was, again, AMAZING. I loved it, because it had a good balance of action and thought. Yes, the magic dreadful word, thought. People are so afraid of that word now-a-days. People don't read books, don't watch movies, don't even try to get into conversations with people that just may make you think a little. People said that Watchmen was just plain horrible, because they could not grasp onto the intellectual side, the thought provoking side, the fact that to get peace and the unity of tranquility, you must potentially pit the world against a common good disguised as a common bad to actually get "ebony and ivory, both together in perfect harmony." But I feel that, by reading and watching this movie, it shows how different the world really is, than from the perspective of just one person, in a city, in a state, in a country, on a world, in a galaxy, in this universe. People will always think of themselves as The Comedian, that, in the end, you will always get the last laugh. But before you get that dreaded last laugh, you will realize that the world's true scale is a lot bigger than it may seem. 

To many of the people that know me, you will know that, I'm not, or was never, this smart, or this thought provoked. Yes, I have changed. For the better or for the supposed worse. But I like to think for the better, because, I think it's best to learn the values and details of life early on. Yes, life has been tough. Yes, life is twisted and evil and cynical. But guess what? If life wasn't then nothing would be. Everything in the world would be peaceful, boring, and simple minded, now who truly wants that? What kind of world would Earth be, if everything was exactly the same, if everything was in harmony? I pretty bad and boring one, I'll tell you that. The world grows from the cynicism that it brings upon the human race. The Comedian in this graphic novel, finally sees the cynicism of the world, finally realizes all the bads that he has done, what he could have done to repent, or done instead of his horrific deeds. His death (Not a spoiler, it's first thing that happens) reveals the truth to the world, something he tried his hardest to figure out, that in the end, the good get the last laugh, even if they must do so in the worst of ways. As they say though, "the good die young." And in the end, The Comedian, though a twisted, f*cked up fellow, he sees that he is wrong, that the bad are truly wrong, and becomes good. Through that realization, he dies as the youngest of his old Super Hero Contingent. Of course, his death is a murder, which eventually leads to the horrid truth of "to spur peace and prosperity, you must foster the world against a common evil" even if it is a common good disguised as evil.