Is Govt Secrecy Killing Us? Can Anyone Become Evil? Politics Of The Avengers? (The Point)

[ihavenobias]

What is the politics, if any, of The Avengers? Is government secrecy killing us? Are people naturally good or evil and can we all be happy? Cenk Uygur (host of The Young Turks) leads this weeks panel to discuss these issues and more with Patrick Meighan (writer - Family Guy), Kinsey Schofield (correspondent, Young Hollywood), and Shari Young Kuchenbecker (psychology professor and author of 'Raising Winners'). Special thanks to Chase Madar (author of 'The Passion Of Bradley Manning'), and Philip Zimbardo (professor emeritus at Stanford University and founder of the Heroic Imagination Project) for sending in points.

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[MedfordTim]

1. I can't stand it...

...when self-admitted non-comics reading people try to dissect character motivations and political leanings. If they had been reading since the 1960's (as some of us have), they wouldn't have to wonder. I'd rather they stick to "Mitt's Lies Of The Day/Week/Month" or something.

[ihavenobias]

2. I haven't see the movie yet

so I purposely avoided watching the third segment for now. Anyway, the idea came about because of several articles on the topic:

http://www.alternet.org/story/155291/the_awesome_politics_of_%26quot%3Bthe_avengers%26quot%3B

http://www.nationalreview.com/home-front/299779/politics-and-ithe-avengersi-if-iron-man-libertarian-what-s-hulk/nancy-french

http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_20649437/world-according-avengers