The new Harry Potter book attempts to capture a wizarding world under seige. Vague fears, random acts of violence, and the search for understanding of the evil that is Voldemort create a world that is uncomfortably close to our current reality.
The only nit I have to pick is that the world seems disconnected with the world of book 5. We've gone from pre World War II appeasement of an evil Hitler figure to post World War II terrorist cells. The shift is too radical to be believable.
In real life, people have a hard time holding more than a few ideas in their head. Once a group of people has an idea of what "enemy" and "evil" means, they can't wheel around and radically change it in a year or so.
Another thought: evil in a state is much scarier than terrorist evil. Most terrorists who have any kind of long term success are connected to states or quasi-states and most terrorists have strong nationalistic tendencies. This is something that has been completely ignored in our current war on terror because GW does not want to name names.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment