Messy Truth

The recent film Top Gun: Maverick, was hugely successful, with many fans saying, “they don’t make movies like this anymore.”

Maverick feels like a throwback to Hollywood’s Golden Age, and it is. It’s depiction of clear heroes and villains, unapologetic respect for country, military, staunch individualism, are all marks of the Modern age that began around the year 1500 and is characterized by reason, science, capitalism, and the morality of individual and human rights. But since the end of WWII, ...