Marcuse wrote:I liked this one, I think each entry is pretty solid. I think the ropiest one was the one about It's a Wonderful Life merely because it kind of reaches a little into the future to justify why it's horrifying rather than showing something within the movie itself like the others.
Furthermore, the article says: "Things might be better for the entire region in the long run if he told Clarence to buzz off and jumped into the goddamned river." But as a commenter pointed out, Pottersville isn't what would happen if George killed himself; it's what would happen if he'd never been born. The manufacturing industry is already there, and it's not going to disappear because of George killing himself.
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
--Carl Jung