Cain and Abel/Luthors and Kents

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I wrote a post on Smallville's Luthors and Kents a few years ago. The recent news about one of the actors in the show pleading guilty to her involvement in the weird NXIVM sex cult got me thinking about Smallville, which is timely because collision of Ice Age cultures is on my mind lately.

In Smallville, the main story revolves around two archetypal families: the Kents--who are farmers that have been in the town of Smallville, Kansas forever, and the Luthors--itinerant wanderers, criminals, and frauds who show up in recent generations. The two families are mirror images. Where the Kents are concerned with justice and right living, and actually struggle and suffer for it, the Luthors are grifters, murderers and thieves who live a lavish, but hollow lifestyle. (Star Wars' Skywalkers and the Empire are the same pairing.)

I think the sun god myth, which is the story of Superman, is really a fictionalized account of the end of the Pleistocene. It's not really history, though, because its characters and plots are stand ins for categories of peoples and events rather than a retelling of specifics, which are by now completely forgotten. It's also colored by ex post facto astrology and the turning of ages.

Anyway,it's notable how Smallville really delves into it. The Luthors, like the Empire in Star Wars, are exemplars of the city and technology. Where the Kents are farmers, the Luthors run a factory that pollutes the world and turns people, animals, and plants into monsters.

The fall of the Pleistocene, fall of Man story is really one of regret and the original bad choice, trading the natural life for the city life.