It seems that victims, the poor, and the defeated always hail themselves as good guys while the victorious, the rich, and the ones in power are usually considered the villains.
\nOur world has finite resources (be they fuel, money, or whatever) and anyone who seeks to gather those resources for themselves or their chosen group are considered bad by the weak who have their resources taken from them.
\nIt\u2019s all perspective.
\nThe only person that I can think of at this moment that I think of as an actual chaos-causing villain would be Julian Assange (sp?) of the Wiki-Leaks bit. That was a seriously awesome shit stirring that he caused.
\nDictators, while nearly always considered villainous, are really just super successful, workaholics. What higher echelon of government or industry is not full of sociopaths? They all are \u2013 they must be, simply because sociopaths are best suited for survival. Nature doesn\u2019t give two shits for terms like hero or villain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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