The Committee to Nuke Elysium

Look at the technology we use. We’re cyborgs. We’re attached to our phones at ever-younger ages, while the phones have evolved forward. Most people don’t even have short-term memories anymore. We’re becoming machine people. I think superheroes are part of the vision of what we may become: Individuals with our own chest emblems. Something is going on there, a strange collapse. Like you said, more and more people want to become superheroes, even as comic-book writers and filmmakers have spent the last 10 years trying to make superheroes much more real, relatable and convincing.