Nihilism simply leaves one with nothing to do...

Russian Superman from Superman: Red Son: Rising

I gotta admit, the seemingly endless ongoing collapse of the American "Empire" under its current President has left me quite distracted.

Russian Superman
with Diana Prince from
Superman Red Son: Rising

(How can it not when they are separating families and caging children at the border under the guise of national security?!)

I read Superman: Red Son (2003) back in February of this year with the intention of writing about it here...

however, contemplating the moral relevancy of American Capitalism (Lex Luthor) and Russian Communism (Superman) in a piece of fiction seems trivial when all around us the more noble elements of Social Democracy are eroding at a break-neck pace in real life.

And, subsequently, in estimating what matters sufficiently to warrant a short treatise on it here, I get lost in the existential quagmire that is Nihilism:

Nothing matters. Even asserting that nothing matters doesn't matter. 

 Why do anything if ultimately it will all come to the same result: Annihilation?

 And thus, who needs another prattling novice writing about texts that have already been written about again and again and again?

And then I remind myself that there is nothing helpful in going down that rabbit-hole. In Hero Journey terms, one must look into the abyss and see eternity.

So, I'm gonna to start writing here again despite (or perhaps because) only darkness awaits us all.

Title Page of Superman: Red Son

Propaganda Poster: "Citizens! All Hail our Comrade of Steel
& the Worker's Utopia!" from Superman: Red Son