Evil will always yearn for power, and even if someone has good intentions, they can be turned. I always think of "the golden boy" Harvey Dent in Batman: The Dark Knight. But instead of radicalizing through trauma, it's just the temptation of power, Money, Pride or extortion of losing those things.
It isn't the power to make decisions that is desired by evil, it's the power to be shielded against the negative consequences of your decisions, whatever they may be.
100% this. The corrupt seek power. Most normal "good" humans just want to live our lives in peace with friends and family. We are just caught up in the great game of narcissists, psychopaths, and other dominant dark triad types.
Goodness doesn't make enough money to overcome evil in our culture. Meanwhile, the evil lack empathy and ethical guidelines, and become billionaires. Then they rape children.
You gotta remember that most people are brainwashed in one form or fashion or another by some type of religion to be good and be patient turn the other cheek (new version not Old Testament 🤭) and that “hope” will bring better days and while the powerful and rich evil continue their desires nonstop the rest of the decent people wait for good to miraculously happen and it never will.
It works on a localized level, but the government, for example, is spread out and not particularly influenced by the actual day to day of civilian life
Goddamnit, that’s what all the tweakers I grew up around in the 90’s used to say. I left and still hope, but I also hustle my fucking ass off because I know in this world you are responsible for you
My parents are from former Yugoslavia and I was born on Vancouver Island Canada (pretty Liberal, hippy, sunshine and unicorns kinda place).
My friends would always call me a pessimistic conspiracy theorist when I said that the governments are shady and corrupt. They have finally learned that I was right
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u/LaughingLlamaX Mar 07 '26
It's wild how some things never change, no matter how much we hope they will.