The American Syndrome In The Incredibles By Pixar

Pixar, the beloved family movie company, has an amazing way of tackling tough themes and hammering home messages, while also appealing to the mass of children it has accumulated as fans. In one of my favorite Pixar movies, The Incredibles, the villain syndrome seeks to sell his superhero tech to the world. He wants to dethrone the natural born super heroes from their throne of glory. Explaining to Mr. Incredible, Syndrome says, “And when everyone’s super, no one will be.” Syndrome plans to mass produce superhero tech in order to bring superheroes down to the level of everyone else. He wants to show that they are no more god-like than any other person. Today we face a similar crisis. Everywhere in society we freely toss around 5-star appraisal
24 hour news has become the American norm. Needing to know as much as possible, Americans switched this type of news delivery in order to consume stories and events in the world, regardless of how petty or insignificant the news stories are. Fully-knowing that 24 hour news is ridiculously unnecessary, broadcast companies over-hype their stories, choosing the most explosive descriptions and titles they can manage in order to ensnare the viewer. But the news, more often than not, is frivolous and arbitrary. Why does the country need to know about the fox attack in a small town in Minnesota? It doesn’t. But when you advertise the story as “Terrifying Feral Beast Ravages Minnesota City,” everyone and their grandmas needs to see the news-piece. Yet after years of this type of over-exposure Americans have become complacent, they aren’t interested in the same boring stories, no matter how enticing the title card is. Now when the news shows, “Syrian Town Bombed-53 killed,” no emotion is elicited. The U.S. has become numb. And no matter the word choice: horrid, ghastly, traumatic, etc. people will not react because they have become over-saturated and
Everyday millions of videos are uploaded and everyday millions of YouTube videos are forgotten. To ensure that their videos are seen, more and more creators are resorting to “clickbait” titles. This is not a new experience for the internet, clickbait-ing can be seen spanning the entire web. Clickbait titles are titles that use eye-grabbing words and phrases to sieze the attention of potential viewers. For example, one might see, “HUGE MAN EATING SPIDER ALMOST KILLED ME” on a video that, in reality, is just a story about a tiny daddy long legs that someone killed –hardly a near death experience. Just like in the case of over saturation in media, viewers become quickly unresponsive to videos such as this. But the floods of these clickbait videos drown out real content creators, who make real videos that are funny or interesting. Self-respecting creators don’t usually resort to clickbait to obtain views, and so good videos often go unseen because of the lack of flashy titles. Language inflation has allowed good original content to be snuffed out by clickbait. It has allowed new ideas and themes to be drowned by recycled, overused, garbage. It has allowed the significant to become insignificant, the extraordinary to become ordinary, and the overwhelming to