Paul Anleitner (@PaulAnleitner)

The Boys represents everything alluring and ultimately unfulfilling about postmodern ideology. It tells you that “good and evil” is a lie by the powerful. The powerful are always “oppressors” and the ultimate goal is to expose them and take their power. But there’s a major problem… What do you do after exposing Homelander? Who fills the vacuum? If power is inherently oppressive, you’ll be rebelling and deconstructing again. And again…and again… David Foster Wallace called it living as “third world rebels.” You get stuck in permanent revolution mode. Always cynical. Always living in chaos. Never building something better. Never aspiring to be Superman, because Superman can’t be trusted. It’s an ultimately hopeless and nihilistic ideology that ruins lives.