15. Winter Solider specifically mentions real-life "Paperclip" program whereby CIA recruited Nazi scientists. That's how HYDRA survived.
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16. The ultimate effect of HYDRA is to more Captain America from history and push narrative into Gnostic mythology.
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17. In universe of Capt. America, there's eternal war between the hidden forces of darkness and the (often equally hidden) children of light
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18. Maybe I betray my bias and training as a historian, but this glib move from history to myth is troubling.
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19. As I said, in terms of first movie, Nazis aren't ultimate evil but just pawns of the true bad guys, HYDRA.
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20. So violence & criminality conducted in War on Terror not traceable to American democracy but due to insidious infiltration of HYDRA
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21. Message of Winter Soldier: if we can just get rid of HYDRA, military-industrial complex (Fury, Captain America) can be trusted again
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22. The other religious element in this is the denial of death: Capt. America comes back from dead, as does Fury & (ambiguously) Bucky
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@BrentSirota But of course in Gnosticism, it is knowledge of the falsity of the material world that saves.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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@BrentSirota point, element of Gnosticism is division of world into knowers (both HYDRA & heroes) and non-knowers (rest of world)2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
25. The Superheros & Super-villains are united in that they know what is actually going on, how history actually works.
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26. The general population sees only the political facade (Nazis, Commies, Democracy, Terrorism). The Supers see real reality.
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27. In conclusion, turn to mythology blunts and undermines the attempted political allegory in Winter Solider (and other superhero stories)
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