A deeper layer in The Incredibles

There's this scene in the Incredibles. The entire family is being held captive by Syndrome's force field, and he's explaining his plan.

"...then I'll sell my inventions, so that everyone can be super! And when everyone's super...heh, heh, heh...no one will be."

Oh, Syndrome you evil man! How could you? Destroy the supers??

OK, here's my question. What's so bad about Syndrome's proposition? I ask, because I'm one of those that Syndrome is talking about. I would be able to buy his stuff and be super. Why not let everyone be super? What's wrong with that?

But admit it, when Syndrome suggested his plan, we all collectively gasped in horror, because we knew what he was saying. The celebration of mediocrity will become so pervasive that supers will be drowned in an ocean of wanna be's.

Do you see what's going on? Why do we react to the idea of everyone being super? Because. We want heroes. We need them. We want our heroes so badly that we will affirm near universal mediocrity so that a few can be great. Don't take away greatness, don't take away the ability to aspire, to be inspired.

We want heroes because we want a value system to show us what is high and noble and virtuous and honorable. We want there to be a lower level so that the higher can exist. We need lowness so we can recognize highness.

Do you see what this means? Take a super leap forward and recognize that this ultimately leads to the fact that we need evil in order to recognize good. We need, yes NEED, sin and darkness and pain. Without it we could never have known goodness and beauty and virtue.

Where did evil come from? I dont know, except that it was part of God's plan. There could be no other way.