Doctor Strange and the Will to Power

 Potential spoilers for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. 

I suspect that the scene on the streets of New York that involves Doctor Strange and America Chavez fighting Gargantos appears early on in the film. America and Gargantos, while fighting in another universe, pass through one of America’s portals into the current MCU universe, and Doctor Strange joins the fight. This is the first time that Doctor Strange and America Chavez meet. We see later in the trailer that Wong engages the battle, trying to lasso Gargantos. It is more than likely that he is the one who ends up bringing its rampage to a halt. It is after that scene from the trailer that he lectures Doctor Strange for having opened up the paths between universes and creating that situation.

The MCU has been quite open in its intention to go a more “Woke”, that is, a Cultural Marxist, direction. It was first embarrassed by the fact that in the comics Wong was actually Doctor Strange‘s servant. The solution to that was to make him a sorcerer himself, and to ignore his history as a servant. Making him Sorcerer Supreme was a step even further in a Woke direction. It was a deliberate, anti-western and anti-American imperialism and colonialism move, in the same vein as what was done in Thor: Ragnarok. The same philosophy also ran as a thread throughout the second Guardians of the Galaxy movie. Ego was cold, ruthless, and narcissistic in his colonizing of other planets, just as Odin was in his warring against others. 

Doctor Strange himself, in both the recent Spider-Man movie and the upcoming Doctor Strange movie, represents the Western, American white male, acting as he sees fit, with no respect for how his actions may affect others. He acts according to the principle of the Will to Power - whatever he desires to achieve he should be allowed to achieve, simply because he desires it. There is no transcendent standard of right and wrong by which he must be tethered.

In the scene where America Chavez is suspended in the air and a star portal opens behind her, she is actually being tortured by Wanda and the monster in front of her is something manifested by Wanda. Wanda is doing this in order to get her children from another universe.

America Chavez is a character who, in the comics, has two mothers rather than a father. Even though she comes from another planet, she resembles a Hispanic woman and is regarded as being Hispanic. And she herself is a homosexual. A close look at the trailer shows that she is wearing a rainbow flag on her jean jacket, as an intentional mark of LGBTQ representation. That this has some importance with regard to her being tortured should be very obvious.

The automatic assumption with regard to the Illuminati is that they are a good counsel looking to correct the bleed between the universes. But it could be that they are in fact of evil or questionable intent, or that some of the members are corrupt in their intentions while others are good. I suspect that this version of Professor Xavier is not the one from the Fox universe, but maybe an evil version. When in the trailer he says, “We should tell him the truth,” we should question whether or not they actually will. The Illuminati seems in part to be made up also of a version of Baron Mordo from another universe, Reed Richards, Captain Carter, some version of Tony Stark, an alternate version of T’challa, and maybe even the version of Doctor Strange, Defender Strange, as seen in the trailer. The latter sacrifices himself in some fashion, turning into Zombie Strange.

Which is true, free will, or determinism? In Liberal Western culture today, our god above all gods is individualistic free will. What modern Western man desires above all things is a world where no god exists, no one to whom each man must give account. This was at the core of the Loki show, just as it has been for countless movies and TV shows over the past few decades. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness will continue to explore that.

But if we are to accept free will, which form is right? Is it the Western, American Will to Power, or is it that of the Marxist? There is no difference. When the existence of God and any transcendent truth have been rejected, all that’s left is power. All that’s left is a vacuum where not even love can exist. All that’s is left is meaninglessness, nihilism, death, and chaos. Such a vacuum always leads back to tyranny.

If there’s one lesson should be learned from the past few years, it’s that the pursuit of individualistic free will, a life fully liberated from the one true Sovereign God, only leads to the worshiping of false gods, of other created things, a life where no freedom exists at all, a life of slavery.