Wonder Woman Got It Wrong. Did You?
Channel: Foundation for Economic Education
Date: 2020-10-08

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SPOILERS AHEAD.

Wonder Woman 1984 will be hitting theaters (or streaming services) soon. Gal Gadot was fantastic as Diana in 2017’s Wonder Woman, but… she didn’t get her worldview quite right. She had to learn a powerful lesson about how humanity actually works, and it’s time to explain what Wonder Woman got wrong and why it matters to you.

It’s tempting to oversimplify both great things and terrible things by assigning responsibility to one important player. Diana was convinced that Ares, the God of War, was the mastermind behind World War I. So, logically, killing Ares meant ending the war.

Unfortunately, Diana found out that it just doesn’t work that way. 

And whether you’re celebrating or blaming Obama, Trump, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden or Jeff Bezos, chances are it’s a lot more complex than that. Understanding that it’s not as straightforward as ‘your guy = good, their guy = evil’ is something Diana had to come to terms with… and she almost got there.
We’ll see whether she’s refined her understanding of the world in Wonder Woman 1984, but you can solve this problem *right now* by recognizing that almost nothing is as simple as it seems.

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CREDITS:

Produced by Sean W. Malone
Written by Sean W. Malone
Edited by Arash Ayrom & Sean W. Malone
Asst. Edited by Jason Reinhardt
Thanks to Matt Tabor & Tim Webster

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LINKS:
-- World War I --
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/world-war-i-history
https://www.thebalance.com/world-war-i-4173886
https://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2014/08/02/economic-consequences-of-the-great-war/#7c75d61a2b21
https://fee.org/articles/wilsons-war-how-woodrow-wilsons-great-blunder-led-to-hitler-lenin-stalin-and-world-war-ii/
https://fee.org/articles/woodrow-wilson-made-the-world-unsafe-for-democracy/
https://fee.org/articles/woodrow-wilson-progressive-and-dedicated-racist/

-- Books & Essays -- 
https://fee.org/resources/great-myths-of-the-great-depression/
https://fee.org/resources/i-pencil/
https://fee.org/articles/the-use-of-knowledge-in-society/

-- Philosophy -- 
https://fee.org/articles/i-individual-why-the-individual-should-be-celebrated/
https://fee.org/resources/personal-character-is-more-powerful-in-shaping-society-than-the-legal-political-environment/
https://fee.org/articles/character-not-control-is-the-antidote-to-evil/
https://fee.org/articles/individual-happiness-and-the-minimal-state/