Bad Guys Must Die, Part 3

Lately I’ve been exploring the topic, stated above, in a philosophical way related to written work. However, there are times when literary theory intersects with real life. One of these occurred just before I started this thread. It spurred me to open a topic I wasn’t sure deserved the space.

Recently, the United States arbitrarily assassinated a foreign official in a drone strike. Immediately, questions were raised about the rationale for this, and about the consequence for U. S. diplomacy. And a chorus came back defending the strike. Can you guess what that chorus was?

“He was a bad guy.”

It often may seem that our stories don’t matter. Especially for Indy authors like most of us, who seem to be perpetually immured in obscurity. Yet, all the stories we tell, by the famous authors and unknowns, whether it’s in a book, a movie, a comic, a play — when they have the same outcome and the same rationale, they build a narrative that can shape the world.

We might think that we’re only telling stories. That they are just for fun and won’t have a lasting impact.

I’m not so sure of that, now.

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