Popular culture’s therapeutic inner-essence ideology can be reversed by action-based ethics

Evidence

The film’s principal ethical lesson presents a reversal of this ideological conviction. In Wayne’s struggle to differentiate justice from revenge, revenge is personified by the uncompromising R’as al Ghul, while justice is represented by the assistant District Attorney, Rachel Dawes. Dawes is given the film’s crucial (anti-therapeutic) slogan, “It’s not who you are inside that counts, it’s what you do that makes you what you are.” The Good is possible, but not without Decision and the Act. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 434

Categorization

• XREF: Zizek’s belief-versus-action disavowal model applied directly; resonates with the ‘we remain good persons regardless of what we do’ critique that runs through contemporary therapy-culture discourse. — connects to: Moral disengagement techniques can be explicitly unmasked and reversed

Broader Connections

• Moral disengagement techniques can be explicitly unmasked and reversed #complicates (0.82)