Rant: A call to villainy

Throughout human history people have grappled with the unassailable forces of adversity and found strength in their struggle against them. Be it natural disasters, war or highly irascible mega fauna there has always been some horror beyond the next bend. Humanity has been propelled to this point in its development by adversity, strife, chaos and the urge to overcome it. Not just overcome it, but to tame the chaos surrounding their lives, to use it towards their own ends. Villains provide us with a human face to that struggle, a corporeal and mortal manifestation of our frustrations. They provide the world a target in times when there is no one to blame. At times villains take action that causes them to be blamed. But most importantly, villains provide opposition.

Opposition and strife has generated far more innovation than any other force in human life. Through this agent of change humanity has altered the face of the planet, invented endless new technologies to alleviate suffering and in a moment of striking irony, secured future generations their fair share of suffering with the byproducts of developing that technology. So not all is lost for the budding villain. Humanity has devoted it's time and attention in equal measures to feeding people and finding new ways to turn those crops into a fiery wasteland, don't think that utopia is around the corner just waiting to be found.

The benefits of villainy have been heaped upon society, of this have no doubt. Why the greatest friendships ever known were formed under considerable duress! Is there a greater friendship than one that was formed in battle? A man who has held your life in his hands countless times, who has risked his own so you might both survive the horror is the greatest friend you can know. Whom do you suppose drove the engine of war to manifest that battle? Villains. It requires a villain to look at the bleak, senseless horror of warfare and extract this gleaming heart from it's chest - we are blessed to know adversity.

Being heartless is not the only requirement of true villainy. There is a subtlety to it that escapes the vast majority of politicians, investors, broadcast anchors and other aspiring villains. There is a prevailing philosophy amongst these pretenders that a villain must burn down the whole building to spite a room. Any five year old with access to a large enough arsenal can destroy the planet wholesale. That is simple. A true villain will only crush as much as is necessary to instill paralyzing fear in what remains. It is a far more effective use of resources than attempting to dominate the entire planet at once. Too often in today's pathetic excuses for villainy do I see those with the heart of a villain but with none of the restraint that is needed to fill the role. We, as persons of integrity, do not want to see the world destroyed. Just a little more under control. Our control.

So does this call for villainy go out to the world, a call for any who wish to see the world a better place. People of vision, integrity, honor and considerable personal wealth with little moral grounding I call upon you all. Act now towards providing the world its adversaries, its nemesis, its good fight. The world has need of measured doses of evil perpetrated by those who will understand the nature of their goals. We must stop the amateurs from disgracing the role. These hack villains must be stopped, they lack grace in their actions and lower the art to mere thuggery.


Thank you for your time:

Eriq Nelson
Adversary.