The Occult In the U.S.

     

      The occult is super present in the united states nowadays, with all the vampires and demons that are over sued in books, television and movies. The question of why its so prevalent can simply be answered in my opinion is because its awesome, things would be the same with out, we've just gotten use to it, it just natural part of are everyday lives now we don't even notice it. I pretty sure it all stems from the years back when people needed an explanation for all things the go bump in the night by blaming everything on the devil. If something bad happened it had the be Satan, I spilled my water, it was Satan, I tripped it Satan, My cheated on me, it must be Satan. Things that they couldn't explain had to be evil or magical. Then eventually somebody got the bright idea that the occult could make a great story either to scare kids into being good with things like Krampus, evil Santa, or just as a great story that evolved into the less creepy fairy tales we hear as kids. Us as Americans are obsessed with the occult not only because it makes for great entertainment, but because we grow up with it so it doesn't bother us, plus as far as we're concerned it just a show, just a for entertainment, but for other people for outside the U.S., these demons and monsters are all to real. Like my mom for example, we're from Togo a small country in west Africa between Ghana and Benin, my mom hates seeing anything demonic on TV, if she sees it shes gone, because to her the crap is possible, she tells me about people making deals with the demons to shape shift into giant dogs, get rich, call lighting down form the sky and so on. The occult to most Americans if just Hollywood magic, along with growing up with magic sprinkled over everything we read and watch, the occult mean jack, since it doesn't bother anyone it can permeate through our media. In America were absorbed in the occult not only cause it ranges awesome, but because at the end of the day it isn't real to us. Personally i don't much care for the occult, partly because i pretty sure its really to a certain extent, and i'm actually allergic the fear to i try to stay away from the occult and things associated with it, but that's just me.

                   

                                                         Anti-Heroes in Media

Ichabod Crane's anti-hero character in Washington Irving's "The legend of Sleepy Hollow" spawned a overwhelming amount of such characters in US media, in books, movies, and television shows. Spreading past just American media, but other countries, namely japan that cranks out out anti-heroes in animes like there hotcakes, characters like Sasuke Uchia, from Masashi Kishimoto's popular series "Naruto".

Sasuke Uchia

Sasuke is the deuteragonist, being only second to the main character Naruto. Sasuke is a cold, ruthless, cynical, arrogant kid, that is willing to do whatever it
to further is own agenda( like Ichabod Crane) of becoming strong enough to kill his brother that murdered his entire family. Going as far as murdering other, within the show Sasuke has killed a grand total of 1005 people, one of whom was he brother that he finally got around to killing.



In the first season of the show when he meets his team mates the two other protagonist he show a cold indifference toward them feeling that he was superior to them in all ways, Even as the how progresses and little hints of a possible friendship that arise are quickly squashed by Sasuke.

Sasuke ruthlessly cutting down his partner that was taken hostage by Danzo, because she was standing in the way of him and the dude he wanted to kill, to Sasuke friends are just another obstacle on his way to the top, before and after he killed his brother.







Sasuke Uchia like Ichabod Crane is shining example of a anti-hero in Medea, though he is a self-centered, hardhearted douche-bag, that doesn't give a rat's furry rear-end about anybody but himself. But despite it all he is a tragic hero, that's actions are driving by the death of his entire family (clan), that's my personal favorite character from the show.