Greetings,
Just a thought, and a follow up the Engine of Malignance Post from earlier. Heroes take the responsibility of helping others into their hands, thereby taking away the responsibility of the individual to help themselves. If they give a sandwich to a homeless person, that person does not need to find food at that time, and therefore will not. And then the Hero goes away, the homeless person is left crestfallen when the hunger returns, and no hero to provide the help. The heroes build a dependency in others to need them.
Villains on the other hand accept only those that raise themselves up from their low stations. While heroes seek to hold you down, by engendering you to their care, we elevate you by allowing you to choose freely weather you will do nothing, or strive for more.
One drew a difference between the Heroes need to become sole protectors of their community, subtlely taking away that same community's confidence to protect themselves, and the Villains penchant for enslaving a populace to take care of themselves. The Villains would want to educate the population to watch out for each other (and inform on any criminal or subversive malcontents), and take the responsibility of protecting their own self and loved ones into their own hands. You may always rest assured, that the Villains care not weather you live or die, unless you have some value to the Villain, to the community, or resale value.
Villainy goes one step further in Managerial prowess, and this is in the use of small groups of assets, disassociated from other groups, but answerable to a single Leader. These groups are known as "Cells" and operate autonomously from the Leader, once given their objectives to achieve. Wouldn't it make more sense to organize the homeless into cells? If each person may beg/borrow/steal 5$ a day, that person can purchase one meal. But if a cell of 3-4 people pooled their earnings, they could purchase and share food that could last a number of days. This same principle could go towards protection and care of each other. Instead of operating as single people against the cruelties of the world, they could shoulder their burden collectively. One believes this may already be happening, and may be proven successful in the field. My argument instead is that this should be encouraged. Assign henchmen to assemble the cells, and have these cell members raise themselves from their humble stations, and become useful members of society (and potential minions!). This same principle is seen in Families. Forge artificial families, and the benefits would be forthcoming.
With Splendid Horror Unfolding,
-Lord Malignance
M,
ReplyDeletethat´s an interessting idea,but I can´t let my henchmen work in cells...not now.It´s pretty hard to find good henchmen in germany,you have to teach them nearly everything.
Maybe some day...maybe
baghead
Baghead,
ReplyDeleteA good point. It may work best for domestic homeless, though there might be a way to repackage for formula for individual markets.
-M
I must say, those first two paragraphs sound Fox News-y.
ReplyDeleteGranted, there is probably no more evil organization on the planet than Fox News. (Glen Beck's tears are so deadly, a hazmat crew has to come in and decontaminate the area after he's done.)
Agent Beryllium,
ReplyDeleteGlen Beck is an amazing step in the evolution of Faux News: The survival drive appears to have been subverted to one of "How crazy can we go before people stop watching?" One expects a call to Lord Malignance must be an eventuality. Mr. Murdoch, I await contact from your emissaries.
-Lord Malignance
Lord Malignance,
ReplyDeleteVery well put. I agree with you for the first couple of paragraphs. However, I think that the Villain is not meant to perpetuate Society. The only true liberation from the tender-loving care of the Heroes is to embrace lawlessness without order. Order is an attribute of 'Good', and 'Good is dumb'.
-NERO