okay but Ayn Rand's philosophy looms over THE INCREDIBLES to the point that if you are aware of the former you literally can't enjoy the moviehttps://twitter.com/dreamingnoctis/status/1379266427430055941 …
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Replying to @Nymphomachy
It's got a nasty message, but it's not exactly Objectivism. An Objectivist Incredibles would have them refuse to help out the lesser beings who don't deserve it. And the heroes would be self made like Syndrome.
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Replying to @Etanarachel @Nymphomachy
What the Incredibles really celebrates is American Exceptionalism. It posits that certain people are just inherently superior than others and they have a duty to interfere in the lives of their inferiors, whether they want them to or not.
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Replying to @Etanarachel
Okay but the whole point of the movie is that lesser men wrongly persecuted their rightful overlords and that sharing in their power would be morally deplorable
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @Etanarachel
also a bunch of really fascist nuclear family shit
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @Etanarachel
The take that Rand genuinely seriously cared that much about "self-making" gives her too much credit I would argue, like she absolutely does in fact believe in genetic superiority - she had a whole rant about how that's why her heroes are always beautiful and tall and fit
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And that stories that go out of their way to center physically unattractive protagonists are a form of degenerate art
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Etanarachel
Does that make Harvey Pekar the Antirand
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