As a throwback to my childhood, I watched Justice League: New Frontier on Netflix Streaming the other night.  Something about super hero epics is so appealing — could be the simple good versus evil and clear solutions that exist in the comic world which don’t necessarily reveal themselves in the real world so easily.

However, what really struck me was the very end where the creators took excerpts from JFK’s Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech.  It has to be one of the most creative mashups of public domain creatives with new original content production.  They selectively excerpted parts of the speech and recombined elements to make something applicable to the video.  It also happens to be inspiring:

The pioneers of old gave up their safety, their comfort and sometimes their own lives to build a new world here in the West.  They were determined to make that new world strong and free, an example to the world.  Some would say that those struggles are all over – that all the horizons have been explored – that all the battles have been won – that there is no longer an American frontier.  We stand today on the edge of a New Frontier,  the frontier of unknown opportunities and perils.  Beyond that frontier are the uncharted areas of science and space, unsolved problems of peace and war, unconquered pockets of ignorance and prejudice.

I am asking each of you to be pioneers towards that New Frontier. My call is to the young in heart, regardless of age.

Can we carry through in an age where we will witness not only new breakthroughs in weapons of destruction, but also a race for mastery of the sky and the rain, the ocean and the tides, the far side of space and the inside of men’s minds?

All mankind waits upon our decision. A whole world looks to see what we will do. We cannot fail their trust, we cannot fail to try.