The Watchmen is Prophetic

            The Watchmen I think was prophetic to what is happening in real life.  It’s a warning to what could be happening in society and us not even realizing it.  Or it could be coming further down the road.  For instance, in the comic the heroes were fighting crime just to have more crime show up the next day.  It was a never ending cycle that they could never get ahead of and defeat.  Also there was the bigger issue of world war which they were helpless to try and defend except for Mr. Manhattan.  This is sort of the case with our country currently.  There is so much crime going on that we cannot catch up and keep crime at a minimum.  While this is going on our national security is being threatened by more and more countries gaining nuclear capacity.  The most dangerous country of all being North Korea.

            In the Watchmen, Veidt decides to protect the greater good of Earth by uniting them against a common opponent.   He decides to do this buy teleporting a giant alien looking creature to Earth that causes an explosion on arrival that kills the whole city of New York.  He decides that the death of a few million is better than the whole world dying because of nuclear war.  This could be prophetic in terms of the real world.  Not in terms of someone and whether they will have to teleport an alien to New York City to cause world peace.  But we may have to find a way to unite the world together in order to have peace and so the world won’t end by a nuclear war.