Popular Beliefs, Myths, and Icons Assignment 1-3-2
Professor Omar Alomari
HUM240-E1FF
Popular Beliefs, Myths, and Icons
People make up monsters because they parallel the hardships in their own lives. People relate for the reason that most horror movies, science fiction movies and or movies with monsters have the happy ending where good wins over evil. Kirk Combe’s interpretation in his popular culture journal paper reads, “One great Truth being force-fed to Americans at that time was imperialism masquerading as national defense.” (Combe, K., 2011 p. 936) He is commenting on the ideology that the Steven Spielberg movie War of the Worlds parallels this statement. In the movie people are in terror and panic because their defenses are useless against the invading monsters. (Combe, K., 2011) American have a popular belief that some mythical government defense can and will protect them from anything foreign and invasion like; alien invasions were not accounted for.
911 happened to Americans. Although the terrorist were not monsters the National defenses did not protect the people from the invading doom (much like Spielberg’s alien attack). Monsters are very iconic because they are big and bad just like terrorist are iconic for the very same reasons. People were angry at the government, but how can a government fight a monster it does not see coming? In Spielberg’s movie the aliens lay dormant until their counterparts invaded. A myth can be construed as terrorist cells, are living amongst us today; plotting and scheming as usual business.
People hide from the possibility that terrorist are icons, because their actions usually mean fear and power. Monsters are always lurking around in dark corners, they are not mythical; in actuality they are a huge icon, otherwise gun sells would drop rapidly. Spielberg alien’s were defeated but not by the National defense. They were destroyed by their own lack of doing their research. A virus not compatible to their biological make-up killed them. Terrorist like the aliens usually fail because their plan fail. Bin Laden did meet his doom; he, some will say did not do his research. He did not take into account that his messenger led his assassins to him.
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