It sounds silly to accuse smart educated adult people of this But it is very common in all of us, I think, to have that kneejerk response that "Hey if you the author made this happen, that means you *wanted* it to happen You made these people suffer, and that makes you evil"
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I mean in the case of Orwell's take on King Lear, the tragedy here is simple Lear wants to have his cake and eat it too He wants to magnanimously give away his power and retire He also gets mad when the people he gives his power to start using it against him
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Well, don't give it away then You could've prevented this whole thing by just not doing that If you don't want people to do things to you against your will, don't give up your power That's what "power" means
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the incredibles does, in fact, have a core inconsistency within itself about how it considers ability and super-ability, and we don't think about that because it's a great movie pls don't make me
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I think there's a tremendous value in redemptive storytelling (because people crave happy endings, and because I think there's value in signaling that people who do evil things can become better people) but it's extremely dangerous to insist it's the *only* kind of storytelling.
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And the most important thing is that context *matters.* Could you imagine going to write fiction right now and writing a redemptive arc for a cop or a white supremacist?
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