Is it meaningless to apologize? Never.
The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville.
We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.
It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.
I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.
There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.