As far as I can remember, the best that the Terminator film series managed to achieve, when attempting to move beyond the Great Man Theory deceit embedded in the franchise, was to shift it over to "Great Woman Theory" instead.

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I think that one of the reasons I am finding this especially frustrating is a result of reading @annaleen 's The Future of Another Timeline which was so good at confronting and challenging the Great Man Theory.

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Watching the Sarah Conner Chronicles at the moment because I love time travel sci-fi and the "fight against big tech" feels very pertinent.

While I have been enjoying the moral quandaries the characters have been forced to reckon with, the constant reinforcement of the Great Man Theory is hella frustrating.

Am only on Episode 4 so far, so I'm yet to see if this will be too much of an issue for me to keep watching it.

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#GreatManTheory is necessary for the continuation of capitalism, as it centres people who have the most power and prestige at any one time.

Hence, it's why we think of some companies in terms of their CEO, even if said person has only been there a week or two. Or why we think of nation-states as their leaders.

It oversimplifies the workings of both geopolitics and the economy by attributing every action that X business or Y country does to a single individual and erases all the people who had to put in the actual work to make something happen.

Thus to recognise the struggles of the many in the collective of a business or nation is #antiCapitalist