• • Disney, Militarization, and the National-Security State After 9/11 
Henry A. Giroux and Grace Pollock, Truthout Altruism  |Egoism  |Individualism  | Book excerpt.If [The Incredibles] indeed offers up “the philosophy of Ayn Rand”—who opposed collectivism, altruism, and the welfare state in favor of egoistic individualism—then it turns to violence as the means to achieve supremacy.At no point during The Incredibles’ “eardrum-bashing, metal-crunching action sludge” and its self-referential mockery of “monologuing” does the film suggest that reasoning, discussion, or any other form of peaceful resolution might be pursued instead of violence. More in keeping, however, with Disney conventions than Rand’s philosophy is the film’s conflation of the pursuit of individualism with the protection of the nuclear family.   Published: 2011-08-24