...or make someone say his name, that's the closest he comes to to reducing human beings to a lab process and chemical equation.
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Replying to @AlexandraErin @arthur_affect
Right, I get that. I dunno, I just find the job he originally had, legit research chemistry, fascinating. Finding ways to fix and improve >
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> human bodies and minds! I mean, obviously the legit folks do it much slower but just the idea of inventing new psych meds is exciting
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I just think it's tragic - and so did the writers, obvs - that basically personal offense/trauma keeps him from a prosocial path
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Because he could have started a new company. Might have had to work for a few others first,but the point of "Ozymandias" >
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> was that his name was remembered - only in infamy, and it'd be forgotten
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But imagine if he had started "Heisenberg Labs" and invented a cure for Alzheimer's or a less addiction prone stimulant!
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Or, you know, a cure for his specific form of cancer! His name would have actually lived on
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @AlexandraErin
I'm reminded of a review of Goodfellas that said it did the service of making it even clearer than The Godfather that crime is stupid
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexandraErin
Well not all crime. I think many small time drug users and dealers have good reasons
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I think that's part of what Goodfellas was commenting on though - the mob came into existence bc of racism against immigrant populations
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But then became culturally self-sustaining for bad reasons ("As long as I could remember, I wanted to be a gangster")
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlexandraErin
I can see the appeal of the mob, honestly. The idea that you follow the rules and you'll always have people to back you up is something >
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