The movie Stephen Strange is he like autistic a little bit or something where all of a sudden hes all powerful with the magic?
If I tried to learn magic spells like that it would take me more than just one day to learn all that stuff
It is explained that he has a photographic memory. Also, he spent a few months at Khamer Taj.
shareNo, his personality is absolutely typical for a top surgeon; highly intelligent, very aware of his intelligence and personal worth, horribly arrogant about it. He isn't autistic, he doesn't have trouble processing or detecting emotions, he just thinks that what he's doing is more important than anyone's feelings.
Of course the movie had him learning a bit of humility, but if Strange were a real person that wouldn't last. He's saving the world, what the hell do your precious feelings matter compared to that!
When the revolution comes, Stephen Strange will be the first with his back against the wall.
And no, I am an advocate of Pol Pot or 'agrarian socialism', but I do believe in egalitarianism and the end of elitism, and anyone whose attitude amounts to "I have a PhD thus I am better than you" or "fuck your feelings" is a See You Next Wednesday and not productive to a progressive society. In theory, all humans have a place in society, but ultimately we should NOT tolerate intolerance and anyone who is incapable of respecting and embracing others has a choice. And that chouce should be love or die.
Also, I don't like being patronised. Few people do. I'd rather die than have my life 'saved' by someone who holds it in contempt. If a surgeon thinks I'm so worthless, than to avoid personal hypocrisy, perhaps they should allow me to perish rather than waste their skills on me.
You misunderstand completely. A doctor like Strange values your *life* and your ability to live without disability, values it enough to put everything he has, his time, his skill, and his intellect into saving you. It's your *feelings* he doesn't value! And FYI not because a top surgeon holds his patients' feelings in contempt, it's that he thinks he doesn't have time to sit and talk about your feelings, because every moment spent talking is a moment not spent saving someone's life in the operating room. That's what's behind the surgeon's brusqueness, not contempt. (Well, that and poorly developed social skills.)
I say this as someone who's dealt with surgeons professionally, and as someone who would not be alive today without many hours of surgery. FYI when the crisis came I just didn't have the energy to get worked up about anything less important than life or death, my usual insecurity and sensitivity just wasn't there. Before surgery all that was going through my head was "I know I'm going to die... but this guy says he'll save my life... great...", and after that changed to "I LIVED I LIVED I LIVED!!! (And I'm on serious drugs)", so nothing else mattered very much (which may have been the drugs). So some of the doctors that saw me were rude, some were awkward, and the chief surgeon was polite and even kind. Of course I was touched and grateful for the politeness and kindness, but I didn't really care about the doctors who were brusque or awkward, that just sort of blew by me without ruffling my feathers. The only thing that actually offended me was one doctor who didn't understand the danger I'd been in.
Which isn't to defend arrogant doctors, but to explain them. Someone like Strange is fiercely dedicated to saving his patients' lives and their ability to live on their own terms, but I swear to God doctors like him seem to think they have to choose between being the best possible surgeon and having a good bedside manner. They don't get that both are possible, as with the uber-specialist who saved my life.
I look forward to the day with great relish when the robots replace all the technicians and as a society we're forced to value so-called 'soft skills' including empathy (i.e. the human traits that robots will NEVER truly be able to replace no matter what the silly A.I. 'experts' keep fooling themselves into believing). All those left-hemisphere orientated cold fish (most of whom, it has to be said, are men) will be made redundant, and forced (oh deary-dear) to get in touch with, and value, their, and others' feelings.
As a woman, and one who has, to her credit, openly displayed her feelings and humanity here, I hope you'll also welcome the rise of the robots and a society in which we're obliged to elevate carers and empaths, the people whose human traits cannot be replicated by a computer, above emotionally-constipated technocrats.
Then we'll see who the ones with the brains truly are. Haha! Not the ones who are capable of being replaced by robots with all the complexity of an automated road sweeper, that's for sure. 😆
You seem to have missed my point, which was that in life-or-death situations empathy is great, but it is far form the most important thing. My own personal survival has been in doubt several times for several reasons, and FYI when the crunch comes empathy turns out to be pretty far down the list of things that matter. May you never have to learn that for yourself.
Strange LIVES in life-or-death situations, he faces life-and-death situations all day, every day. They are what has formed his habit of mind, and such social skills as he possesses. Must go, will be back late tonight, if you wish to discuss this further.
It would take you more than just one day... well, duh. Unlike the already brilliant Doctor Stephen Strange, you likely wouldn’t have the help of the Ancient One to begin with (he didn’t learn everything overnight btw). :P
shareMaybe the movie wasn't very good about illustrating the passage of time, but I never got the notion he learned it in just one day. However he was able to learn quicker though after he learned how to use his astral projection because then he could study while he was awake and asleep.
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