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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I guess that's kind of the whole attempt at an Objectivist ethos here, Bird doesn't really imagine a world without power, or a world where power is truly leveled, just a stable world where power is held by its rightful stewards vs. violent chaos where power is up for grabs
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(To get all snooty for a second, "Syndrome" is kind of a generic supervillain name, sure, but what the word actually means is a "consistent set of symptoms with an unknown cause", a disease that's been identified but not explained)
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yeah I guess the goodness of the plan depends on whether you think the powerless theoretically have better chances of getting superpowers than getting WMDs
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Or even if they were egalitarianly distributed, if you think the whole game-theoretical outcome of a world where everyone, be they rich or poor, owns an AR-15 is one that ends up better for everybody
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