I watched a new PBS series,
"Superheroes" recently and while I knew something about heroes in
American comics (it's history for example), the program reminded me of
something that had been in the back of my mind for a while. Many times I have heard over the last few
years that there are no heroes in our society; even, that we don't need a hero,
that modern society doesn't allow for super heroes at all!
After watching the PBS programs, I came up
with at least one reason why there are no heroes in modern society - heroes as
depicted in the comics and I thought I would share that theory here: a hero, a
super hero, in just about every case I can think of, goes through a
transformation from normal (appearing) person into the super hero form. The
time was that such super heroes used a telephone booth to get changed into their
uniforms or to come up with some sort of super-weapon. Nowadays however, there
are very few phone booths and their number continues to dwindle towards
extinction. People have cell phones now and the internet - they don’t need
phone booths!
When I was young, I even saw salarymen
suiting up for work in phone booths. When I was very young, I often wondered if
they were not super heroes changing into some exciting costume. Today -
nothing! No heroes, no super heroes, no one changing in phone booths! Please!
Bring back the phone booth so we can have some heroes in our society once
again! We need them! Super heroes need them! There's no place to change!
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