It’s only tangentially related to the topics for which the <em>Current</em> is home, but readers may be interested in some thoughts I’ve posted on <em>Anchor Rising</em> regarding the <em>Dark Knight</em> killer:

Violence in movies is not the problem.  Violent stories are as old as fiction.  Likewise, the realism of cinema and video games may be new, but in prior eras people didn’t need the visual aids.  The livestock bled when slaughtered; the forest road was menacing in a way that needed no symphonic score.

The problem isn’t even that the <em>Dark Knight’s</em> Joker had a point.  The forces of darkness have had a point since the snake in the garden. Human beings are flawed; Creation can be brutal.

The problem is that the knights no longer have a because.

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