One of the good things about the myths is that they are not under copyright. Nor is Dante, or Donne, or Dickens. We can use these stories freely, remake them, and refer to them. However, I have come a realization.

Even the most intelligent of the young generation have no knowledge of anything written before my lifetime. My sons say, correctly, that they have a greater knowledge of history than most people studying it — and they got it from researching games.

Oedipus and Odysseus? Thor, Loki and Maui? Unknown.

Spiderman and Star Trek and Dr Who have taken the place of the myths, with perhaps some cod Tolkien. The movie was converged and is acceptable, but reading that old Catholic Patriarch? Avoid.

Because it may point to the church and Christ.

The foremost motivation of the left is the will to power. And their chosen path to power is through an all-powerful state that completely regulates not just the government, but also the economy, and ultimately the thoughts and interactions of all their citizens.

A society where Christianity is universally embraced and broadly practiced would have no need of a powerful central state to regulate and control human behavior. Hence, the Christian church is a rival to the left for power. “We can’t abide people letting some church run their lives,” they proclaim loudly, while quietly whispering, “That’s our job.”

The strain of anti-Christianity runs deep in the American left. This, and political advantage, are why the left and Islam have made common cause.

These myths, like the rabid rat of the Disney borg franchise, are copyrighted. The idea of convergence is the same as the demand that all think as one: that all be one team, that you be a good German National Socialist or Russian Soviet and shoot the undermenschen as your zampolit tells you to.

Because of ideology. All must conform. The will to power is a meme that was stolen my a second-rate painter when he wrote about his struggle.

And if our copyrighted myths get retold in a way that robs them of power, that is correct, for the narrative power is doubleplusungood.

A black, lesbian female lead. That’s so totally new! She should go nicely with the black female James Bond, the black female Dr. Who, and the white lesbian Luke Skywalker. So, Star Wars is fully converged, Star Trek is fully converged, and Pink SF is fully converged. The famous Chesty Puller quote seems appropriate here:

“We’ve been looking for the enemy for some time now. We’ve finally found him. We’re surrounded. That simplifies our problem of getting to these people and killing them.”

This is actually very good news, because we all know what happens to converged institutions. What it means is that we now have the chance to replace them, and we are, in fact, already working on that. I’m not going to go into more details, except to say that we will be introducing several new series that are likely to be of considerably more appeal to the longtime fans of certain existing science fiction franchises than the converged versions of the franchises.

We’re not going to step on any toes, of course. That would be foolish and is completely unnecessary. But just as 50 Shades of Grey proved more popular than the Twilight books that inspired it, I suspect our new science fiction series, the first books of which will appear in 2017, will be received very well by science fiction fans.

The Pan-Galactic Divergence might not be the heroes you’re accustomed to, but they just might be the heroes you need. And as long as we’re on the subject, I have to say that I find it rather amusing that the SJWs still haven’t realized that they are the Borg.

There will be consequences. Consider this movie, lauded by the critics, as a new reboot of a movie I loved as a kid. Failed.

And the movie all the critics hated has made a lot of money. Because, unlike Ghostbusters, Suicide Squad is funny, has pathos, and a manipulating bitch we can all root against — working for the US Feds.

However, the elite will double down and continue the narrative. Even if they get the baddies wrong, and the girl who played Incubus looked white to all but those who measure micro aggressions.

The opening night audience for Suicide Squad was 41% African-American and Hispanic. That’s a telling detail for a film that, for all intents-and-purposes, was a $175 million+ blockbuster headlined by a black man (Will Smith’s Deadshot), a white woman (Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn) and a black woman (Viola Davis’s Amanda Waller). Yes, the fourth lead is Joel Kinnaman’s Rick Flag, but three of the leads, as well as the breakout supporting performance (Jay Hernandez as El Diablo) and both main villains (Cara Delevingne’s Enchantress and Alain Chanoine as Incubus) were not white dudes.

We can hem and haw about the quality of those characters (see also: Adam Beach’s Slipknot, Karen Fukuhara’s Katana and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s Killer Croc), but this was a major smash hit where nine of the fourteen main characters were not Caucasian males. It’s a little sad that this should be noteworthy in 2016, but it bears a note nonetheless and positions Suicide Squad as less DC’s Guardians of the Galaxy and more DC’s Fast and the Furious. And if the film has slightly longer legs than we might otherwise expect from the frontloaded weekend and recent DC history, I’d argue that its explicitly diverse cast will be one reason why.

The borg must have its narrative. It will trample everything. But they forget this. The power of myth is that it reflects truth. It is a metaphor that allows humans to understand themselves.

And metaphors built on lies fail.