What about media which questions our notions of "good" and "bad" and allows us to see nuance and dimensionality in characters, even if we find some of their actions repugnant?https://twitter.com/h2theannah/status/1353809464881766402 …
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Replying to @ChristieSmythe
If we lived in a vacuum where I just popped into existence today and everything we discussed was hypothetical, then sure. I'm sure that could be pulled off very well. Unfortunately, that's not the case. Who usually benefits from pleas for nuance and understanding in our society?
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Replying to @h2theannah @ChristieSmythe
Mob movies definitely glorify bad people. But they do so by focusing on good qualities: loyalty, risk-taking, strategic thinking, for example. It should also be remembered that drama and real life are different. If one only wrote about normal life, that would be pretty boring.
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Yes, and William Edward Hickman had no such qualities The qualities Rand found admirable in him - an overpowering sense of himself as special and set apart from the masses, a willingness to defy social norms because other people meant nothing to him - were 100% malign
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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
It would've been better had he been part of a gang or an organized crime syndicate It would've meant he was capable of giving a shit about other people and working in some kind of team, at the very least
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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
For fuck’s sake, Ayn: Raskolnikov already exists. Just read Crime and Punishment and shut up, please, shut up
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Replying to @TabitaSurge @financebroseph and
Lol yeah Hickman really wasn't anything other than Budget Raskolnikov A Raskolnikov who falters in his grand get rich quick scheme not out of an excess of scrupulosity but a deficit, of being too much of a sick fuck to even successfully commit a crime for financial gain
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It makes for a worse story because you really have no reason to feel bad for the guy "If only I'd been able to keep it together long enough to collect the ransom instead of flipping out and killing the girl because she pissed me off Then mutilating her body cause I'm weird"
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