Thinking critically makes life a bit difficult at times.  The individual responsibility of continuing to challenge oneself by abiding to this as an act of freedom and empathy is rarely easy, while getting others to adopt this open minded approach to living life (in an arguably less-violent world) is incredibly hard to accomplish.  The goal of fiction is to entertain, but it is also to teach (at the least in some theme or another), and fighting to use this medium in an educational manner will be my objective from this day forward.

RJH 5/7/10