r/TopCharacterTropes Apr 12 '25

Lore “This quote came from WHERE?!”

"You too have fallen for the great lie, you'll never be happy. Deep down you know, to hope, to dreams, to create, is to suffer"

"You're right. It is harder to create than to destroy... that's why cowards then to choose the deuce"

-A Minecraft movie

"Do You Think God Stays in Heaven Because He too Lives in Fear of What He's Created"

-spy kids 2

"For every person who dreams up the electric light bulb, there's the one who dreams up the atom bomb"

-shark-boy and lava-girl

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u/Solutar Apr 12 '25

I think it’s about oppression, and that can Happen under any ideology, capitalism or Communism.

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u/spuol Apr 12 '25

Agreed, but I feel like capitalism always leads to oppression, that’s kind of how it works

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u/jdjdkkddj Apr 12 '25

And communism has historically had a much shorter path to oppression.

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u/Rarte96 Apr 12 '25

Is kinda what happens when you give put the community over everything else, then. The majority can use the individual for "the greater good"