Doomsday

I know we’re all about Glorious Awakening this week, but there’s something on my mind from last week that I don’t think we discussed. Apologies if everyone is already bored to death by Angels. Towards the end of the film Twelve Monkeys, Dr. Railly says to the older psychiatrist, “Psychiatry: it’s the latest religion. We […]

In Kusher’s “Angels in America,” the characters experience a more personal apocalypse than in Watchmen. Each character’s world is shattered on a very private level that is only recognized by others whose world as fallen apart as well. All of the characters in some way are on the outskirts of society based on some aspect […]

Angels in America challenges dogma and relativism by creating its own moral universe. But this new universe is at odds with variety of other universes, for example, the Mormon universe, which considers homosexuality an affront to G-d. If you create a moral universe you’re bound to step on someone’s toes. The skeptic steps on everyone’s […]