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Originally Posted by Matata
Rorschach was a fan of a small, independent rightwing / conspiracy theory newspaper with a dubious reputation (kind of like a pint sized infowars). He left his notes explaining the Ozymandias conspiracy to this paper.
They seem to be skipping the movie on this one and using the graphic novel as the basis. Which is a little jarring as a 48 year old, 120 lb Regina King whooping ass up and down the block really contradicts the tone of the novel.
Also don't like that they made Ozymandias an old boring weirdo, but I am interested in seeing where they go with it.
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Reading up more on it, apparently there's an overtly racist cartoon shown as a sample of the "New Frontiersman's" work. I haven't seen it yet, but if true, that's a pretty solid link between Rorschach and racism.
HBO's website has tried to fill in the gaps too:
https://www.hbo.com/content/dam/hbod...urnal-memo.pdf
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“Rorschach’s Journal” As Counter Culture Classic
“Rorschach’s Journal” might have faded into obscurity if not for two events, the “Blue Wave” of 1992
and the arrest of Dreiberg and Laurie Blake in 1995 for violating the Keene Act. Their capture re-ignited
cultural fascination with masked vigilantes, and to capitalize on that curiosity, New Frontiersman published
“Rorschach’s Journal” in its entirety. The bookazine became a best-seller that appealed to a wide variety
of curiosities, including right wing extremists. Some take it as a history book, others, devotional literature.
For them, “Rorschach’s Journal”—and Godfrey’s interpretation of it—challenges the new, heretical
orthodoxy that makes them feel marginalized and obsolete, written by a revolutionary they revere as a saint.
It rationalizes their conviction that our current president is an illegitimate president, brought to power
because of the E.B.D.E., which, again, per the convoluted logic of Godfrey’s conspiracy theory, was
essentially an insidious coup concocted the embittered liberal elite, as the ramifications of the D.I.E. paved
the way for the Blue Wave of ‘92. This belief is the justification for any number of anti-social behaviors, from
the formation of drop-out communities known as “Nixonvilles,” to domestic terrorists like the aforementioned
Seventh Kavalry, who protest the president by committing violence against symbols of the executive branch,
which is to say, law enforcement.
But the legacy of “Rorschach’s Journal” is evident in every garden variety “anti-hero” vigilante we see in
our line of work, the wannabe local hero who puts on an idiosyncratic costume to live out their solipsism and
inflict their yawp on society. Most of them proceed from the ingrained belief that government—especially an
interventionist government, with its emphasis on controlled growth through increased regulation—is woefully
inefficient or unworthy of trust. Their cynicism is further nurtured by the administration’s controversial efforts
to manage our popular culture with warning labels on entertainment and prohibitions on depictions of the
D.I.E. that might trigger those with 11/2 PTSD or stoke paranoid thinking about it. (They’re already prone
to think that cultural institutions are rigged to demonize them. See: the first season of American Hero Story,
which turned Rorschach, now a conservative/libertarian icon, into a withering deconstruction of pathology
that implicitly shamed anyone who ever found Rorschach or his kind admirable or noble.)
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In this universe, Rorschach has influenced a wide variety of fringe groups.
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Just found the cartoon in question
