This year I have spent a bit of time on watching movies, but not just as a means to passing my time. Instead, I consider them lenses through which to view the Western zeitgeist. Indeed, if you think a bit about the action on screen it is often quite fascinating how crude the metaphors are. In Man of Steel (2013) there is a lot of mindless action. The movie is quite the CGI spectacle. However, there is a much deeper and more sinister aspect, which is perhaps surprising.

I am not too well-versed in the US comic scene, but I get the impression that it is an attempt to forge some kind of national mythology, however clumsily. Comic superheroes are basically what the gods were to the ancient Greeks. Superman is not just a god-like figure, however. Instead, at least in the aforementioned movie, he glorifies immigration. Clark Kent was sent from Krypton to the earth because his home had become inhabitable for some odd reason, which is probably a metaphor for climate change. Then he was sent to Earth and turned out to be able to perfectly integrate into society. He finds a job, enters a relationship with a local woman, and is so well-adjusted that white mainstream society not even realizes that he is not one of them.

Of course, once Clark Kent puts on his Superman attire, everything is different. This movie even tells us that the S on his chest does not stand for “super”. Instead, it is the symbol for hope in his mother tongue because as superior as superman is, he cannot be too blatant about it. For left-wing ideology, Clark Kent is the perfect superhero: he is better and more powerful than any of the locals and he is able to save the world. Without Superman, the locals would perish, just as we are told that millions of foreign doctors and engineers enrich our societies. When Clark Kent’s tribe attacks the earth, he furthermore completely forgets about his genetic bonds. Instead, he fights alongside humans against alien invaders, just as today’s brain-dead leftists think that they can draft a bunch of Muslims and send them to the Middle East to fight against their own. In the world of Superman, just like in the world of leftism, race and biology do not really exist. Everybody can become anyone.

Despite the propaganda, Man of Steel is a good movie. It is not deep at all, and it overstays its welcome a bit. Yet, as a study in modern propaganda it is highly recommended.