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.
Yeah, Syndrome reminds me of the right-wing people that appropriate leftist talking points to push their own.
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”.
Alexander Avila intensifies.
And it wasn’t even his argument originally, but came from the same right-wing techbro circles.
I hope this is not a precursor to a fallout with the left in general.
Eh, what’s another fallout.
Nah, you’re right, I really hope this left wing parroting of techno fascist rhetoric doesn’t catch on.