Feef #028

[geoffsebesta]

I just this second realized that Watchmen is about systems. Everybody in the story has a system, an abstract order that they project on the world. It could be old Night Owl’s cars, new Night Owl’s interest in mythology, Dr. Manhattan’s watchmaking past, Sally Jupiter’s Tijuana Bibles, Ozymandias’s perception of the world as a Doomsday Clock, or Rorschach’s violent vigilantism. They all find solace from brute reality in abstraction, and all the abstractions are proven to be insufficient by the end.

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