bmoak
April 27, 2017, 3:07am
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Those were the original four. Later appearances by the team added more characters in flashbacks. Blue Jay and Silver Sorceress actually ended up joining the Justice League at one point.
SlackerInc:
You do hint however at an interesting and unspoken premise that many hold but I do not. The admittedly oversimplified version goes something like this:
For a few centuries now, the various nationalities of the earth have been playing a kind of global game of Risk. (Before that there were regional games.) Under this version of the rules, whichever group grabs the most territory and resources before nuclear weapons are invented is the winner. (After that the board is mostly frozen in place, with a little tinkering here and there.) Northern Europeans clearly won (although East Asians held their own). So the idea you have, which many other people share, is that people of Northern European heritage are being poor sports if we take pride in that heritage. We are supposed to refrain from this because we won the game. Right?
No.
We are supposed to stop thinking that the point of life is to win at Risk. That way lies children on fire.