A paleocon laments:
"The Wild West has been resurrected not as a story of taming the wilderness, both external and internal, on behalf of decency and civilization, but as a convenient synecdoche for that dark, amoral, and timelessly violent world that all art worthy of the name today must presuppose. Where there is no hope of a better world, there can be little to distinguish heroes from villains."
I guess WALL-E doesn't count.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/07/hollywoods-lost-heroes/214237/
