Explanation: A lot of Internet People say that The Incredibles is objectivist (Ayn Rand’s ideology) because the heroes fight against a revolutionary who wants to make everyone equal by giving people superpowers.
What they miss is that this “revolutionary” is a billionaire who made his fortune selling weapons to world governments under the table, and his only motivation for saying he’d sell his weapons is to make money and spite his enemy. There’s no reason to think he would follow through, and selling powers doesn’t mean everyone gets them. It means everyone with money gets them. Syndrome is proposing a world where rich people have super powers. That’s just the plot of Vampire: The Masquerade.
Syndrome is co-opting leftist rhetoric to make himself look like a hero, while not actually understanding it, because he’s not a leftist. He’s a capitalist billionaire. And the Internet People who think this movie is bad because it praises hypercapitalist ideology… fell for the capitalist’s rhetoric.
This is a solid meme about a ridiculous situation related to a solid movie. Great post comrade
I simply don’t believe this is a thing that has happened. I think you’re making this up.
I think it’s called “still having some faith in the humankind”.
It’s not objectivist, but it is Randian.
That ho doesn’t get to steal the word objective. I’ve had to argue with idiots that think believing in provable fact makes you an ancap.
Very true. It’s one degree removed from calling your pet ideology Correctism
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skipped the semi-critical word “calling” when first typing that out
Its kind of hilarious to me that in this movie the main character beats a healthcare insurance executive to within an inch of his life, probably crushing his windpipe and breaking every bone in his body.
And this is treated by the film as a more-or-less morally justified act (neither Mr Incredible nor the audience are meant to suffer any compunction over the act itself, merely the consequences the blowback causes for his family) and moreover society at large determined that this is wholesome enough to be in a kids movie.
Like, imagine describing a plot point like that in any other piece of media: “in this movie a Superman-expy loses his temper and throws a non-superpowered person through a wall, putting him in a hospital bed for months”. You’d be like “wow that must be some edgy deconstruction of the superhero genre like The Boys or Invincible”, but nope, its a PG rated Pixar film.
Which draws a pretty stark contrast between that and the faux bewilderment and outrage at the reaction to a certain shooting involving a CEO. Like, you can’t be that surprised at what is clearly a pretty mainstream view, right?
Yeah, Syndrome reminds me of the right-wing people that appropriate leftist talking points to push their own.
If you don’t let big AI companies to train your data, then you support Disney, oppose public domain, and oppose use of samples in music.
If you don’t let us call Yasuke from Assassin’s Creed Shadows “N----r”, then you support Ubisoft, crunch, and workplace sexual harassment.
At least with the latter group, they don’t actually care about their own talking points, and think any software development is just “pressing buttons”, and at the very worst, want to solve workplace sexual harassment by removing women altogether from the workforce, then “make them give birth to more workers”.
i dun evn kno whad any of these wrords mean
Superhero movie good. Rich man bad. Rich man say superheroes bad. Rich man wrong. Leftists watch movie, agree with rich man. Silly.
