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The Boys: Are we all power-hungry monsters?
The Boys is a show about what happens when massive power ends up in the hands of sociopaths. But what if the real message of the show is that the whole world runs on a desire for this type of power? Let’s find out with the help of some French philosophers in this Wisecrack Edition on The Boys: Will Power Destroy Us All?
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I don't think power corrupts good people, but because the idea that it will is so pervasive in society, they don't try to get into positions where they'd have authority. Which leaves people who just want to use those positions to serve their own interests unopposed.
Simply this has started to be twisted into some bullshit leftist circle jerk and its ruining a great show.
Haha lemme just get 90k for that full sail tuition
This was great! Thanks guys!
Also if you've noticed characters use one another as literal weapons. Also the Trump allegory started back in season two.
The meek shall inherit the earth and I will take it from them, who's going to stop me? The meek?
Anytime a scandal pops off, I just remember Kratos' advice. "Keep your expectations low and you will never be disappointed". Doesn't matter who, its the same dynamic because its the same power hungry species. Its dangerous to only focus on human virtues, you need to be aware of vices. Evidently, power is a hell of a drug.
The upside is that all things are choices. We may not make good choices, but the potential to solve problems is always there.
The philosophy of my game is similar
7:43 Kill three million and the rest eat out of your hands. Yahya Khan before the Bengali genocide
The worst part about capitalism and its conception is the birth of the anti-capitalist fetish. All of this because of Marx's strawman interpretation in "Das Kapital". Time and intellectual resources are squandered because sophists are too busy raging against the machine like some crappy modern reboot of Don Quixote instead of reading the works of Mises and understanding that a Free-Market is what is needed, not some government manipulated economic model called Capitalism.
Hughie's characterisation was kind of meh in the last season. They really dropped his techie side so quick, it's a shame. Now he's just the "I'm useless unless I have superpowers" guy. sigh
At least the rest of the season was pretty good.
Billy butcher is a Maoist who read a version of the book Settlers that was about supes instead of white people. No I will not be elaborating
Like that guy that grabbed my throat then got stomped by a guy in skinny jeans and flip flops
“…We sympathize with [Hughie]… because he’s way more compassionate than most of the show’s alpha males” (4:04–4:12).
You could spend an entire paragraph taking apart that one statement :).
Todd immediately set off alarm bells! Well done by the writers, taking the shell of The Nice Guy and laying out the path for where that innate, “harmless” certainty in his desert was going to go in this world. Utterly creepy.
Add Varys’ suggestion that “Power resides where men believe it resides”, and you get the corner “The Boys” has painted itself into.
Well, the problem isn’t boys vs girls.
It’s the Wealthy vs Less Wealthy.
Once the women get money and power then there is no difference, they become just like them.
Money/Power makes you less empathetic. Yet these people are the ones in charge
6:10 while Homelander alone is shown as trump I thought Starlight-Homelander teamup was Biden-harris
NO mention of Soldier Boy? He's basically the Hypermasculine power idol that was replaced by the psychopathic corparate power idol (homelander).
On an interesting note when Butcher didn’t have the power/authority to kill Supes he contemplating leaving the life and staying with Ryan.
But when Huggies said that they gotta do it Butchers way (killing supes) he becomes an asshole
Now that I think about it just like homelander there's absolutely no reason for American government to go absolutely nutts and destroy the entire world but for some reason they don't
So, this is actually about Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"???
The Nazi girl is also Jewish lol damn
I like how Huey didn't really seem insecure (kinda liked having a powerful gf) before he and Starlite were in constant danger. When everything was chill and she didn't have to save him, he was fine. But the second his girlfriend was in danger and he was powerless, the insecurities really showed themselves!
Huey and Starlight are hilariously adorable together. 😍👍
Michael just snapped and WENT OFF
Man, im starting to not like this capitalism thing
Every monster is human.
Yes.
But a longer answer is;
So in nature, as in man. You don't find many communist utopias in it. There's always those who have power and those who don't and thats not a bad thing in concept. The problem is constructing a moral framework/ socio-political system wherein the people with power are least likely to abuse it or, failing that, at least impede and stall their ability to wield it.
"Edible fantasy" is a weird way to say a food fetish.
Damn this was peak wisecrack. You guys outdone yourselves. Congrats for the amazing content
This video is a perfect example to show how false focus leads to false diagnosis. Too much focus on power meant that these figures overlooked how systems emerge {They emerge because they served natural purpose – survivalism} & thus missed wood for trees.
Change never stops even in what one would define as 'conservative' & the issue with desiring enforced 'Change' is that it has resulted in biggest catastrophies in human history as it is never sustainable, unstable & thus leads to temporary changes before whole system goes down along with suppossed 'Change'.
“It is not that power corrupts, but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.” – Frank Herbert
Dissecting bio power without mentioning vaccine mandates is either intellectual laziness or ideological conformity
I know that jared is not aroung anymore, but to blame everything on "capitalism" mesage is starthing to feel repetitive and lazy, the show actually tackles modern corporativism, i would think a that philosophy channel would like specificity but its only when ideologically convenient, also nothing on butcher relationship with homelander, edgar and homelander or MM story of being the ethical man, there's some holes in this script.
I hated how they turned Huggies into a little shit. I might be wrong and missed stuff from earlier seasons but why did he all of a sudden have a problem with starlight having powers. He does show an inferiority complex(forgive me if I use the wrong terms) by feeling he has to go to the most extremes to save starlight but that makes sense. There is an inherent proximity nuclear bomb in existence. It just feels weird that Huggies developed issues with starlights power out of nowhere. I might rewatch earlier seasons.
Yes.
17:51 gold
That's what our bearded friend Marx called out almost 200 years ago. Capitalism's contradictions will inevitably bring its downfall. It's up to us to open our eyes about its nature. In that sense I commend Wisecrack to be speaking up about these things, especially when being complicit with them would be so much more rewarding profit-wise.
6:29 homelander is literally Kyle rittenhouse
I don't see any indicator that Huey's struggle with power or the lack of it is about gender roles. Yes protecting others (from physical harm) is a traditional male role but in case of your loved ones it's also just human nature, isn't it?
From a strategic, purely goal oriented perspectiv, he IS a liability due to his lack of combat training / experience, in addition to not pulling his weight. Additionally, not being able to open a jar (a daily task) is a hassle at best and limiting your independence at worst. So both his sense of autonomy and competency are strained. So two out of the three fundamental motivs in Self-Determination Theory are not being met. I feel that is suffient motivation for his action without gender roles.