cyb - cyberpunk

Batman is not a savior and Gotham is a capitalist fascism that isnt to be saved.

Batman is a tacit communal agreement amongst Gotham that the need exists for a means by which systemic inequality can continue without action toward determining or preventing its causes. Batman captures and detains criminals and the police arrest them, thereby lending validity to his cause. Batmans chief enemies are the mentally ill (the joker and the riddler), immigrants (bane), and minorities (catwoman, harley quinn, and disfigured villains such as clayface and killer croc.) The fact that batman consistently denies the ability for rehabilitation in many of these villains conveniently in turn absolves the city as well as his plutocratic double identity from ever doing anything meaningful to address inequality in gotham.

Gotham itself is no more than a collective of plutocrats governed by oligarchy. depictions of the city are a bastardization of the roaring twenties cast in italian fascism, and smattered with modernist superstructures from which steady streams of the well to do ingress and egress. Bruce Wayne, unable to reconcile his dark secret and in keeping with fashionable appearances, donates by his own compare a pittance to orphanages while never addressing the causes of and treatment for seemingly so many of them. his dark torment, the loss of his parents, is irrelevant when super-positioned amongst his endless riches and cloistered elite lifestyle. Batman has no axe to grind but the one layed in his hands by the society he "protects."

Batman is capitalist fairytale, spun from whole cloth and fed to an audience that must be constantly reminded that wealthy people are not only relevant, but helpful and meaningful in a society where they routinely reveal themselves as callous and greedy accessories to the misery of a nation.