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Will They Try to Erase Indiana Jones Because He Makes Nazis, “Feel Bad About Themselves?”
Walk through this process with me and it will give you a better idea of the terrors of our times
I spent a large portion of my youth walking through the woods and pretending to be Indiana Jones. The energy of his adventures was on my mind whether I thought about him deliberately or not.
In the 80s, we used to sit in front of flickering VHS images on tube screen televisions. The colors were washed out when compared to the cinema, but that didn’t matter. The majority of the entertainment took place in our imaginations anyway.
Indiana Jones hates nazis. He says as much. A pretty solid percentage of those films consists of Indiana Jones sitting on a nazi’s chest, holding his shirt with one hand, and beating him with the other.
Indiana Jones punched nazis in the face and we cheered.
This is what’s so mind boggling to me. Kids of my generation literally spent the entire decade watching our hero beat the crap out of nazis. There were even times when I thought, “Okay, we get it, nazis are bad.”
But, sadly, the lesson didn’t take root.
