Explanation: A lot of Internet People say that The Incredibles is objectivist (Ayn Rand’s ideology) because the heroes fight against a revolutionary who wants to make everyone equal by giving people superpowers.
What they miss is that this “revolutionary” is a billionaire who made his fortune selling weapons to world governments under the table, and his only motivation for saying he’d sell his weapons is to make money and spite his enemy. There’s no reason to think he would follow through, and selling powers doesn’t mean everyone gets them. It means everyone with money gets them. Syndrome is proposing a world where rich people have super powers. That’s just the plot of Vampire: The Masquerade.
Syndrome is co-opting leftist rhetoric to make himself look like a hero, while not actually understanding it, because he’s not a leftist. He’s a capitalist billionaire. And the Internet People who think this movie is bad because it praises hypercapitalist ideology… fell for the capitalist’s rhetoric.
Actually, The Incredibles is anarcho-antirealist. I know many magic users who are afraid to use their powers in public because of what society will think of them. I’ve never met anyone who couldn’t use magic if they tried, but the sad fact is, only some people choose to be special. And society IS holding us down. We need to promote a culture that encourages everyone to engage with the arcane, explore their gender&species identity, and form their own spiritual beliefs. Instead of this current culture where we pretend magic doesn’t exist.
Magic has the potential to liberate us from the consensus reality promoted by Capital. We can build new universes. And people are scared of that power. They’re scared of us people who are willing to use that power. But what they don’t realise is that billionaires and the media are already using that power. Already creating reality and forcing us into it. It’s like in the movie, how everyone has 70s tech at the latest, and yet the government has mind erasing devices and buys weapons from Syndrome. There’s a technology inequality. We need to be willing to take hold of the power of the technology of reality bending if we want to protect ourselves.
Superheroes may be illegal, but supervillains still exist.
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