Monday, November 3, 2008

The Bad Guys are only as bad as their bad logic.

I've always had this notion that if I hadn't curbed my enthusiasm, I'd be a cult leader, revolutioner of some kind, leader of a militia or criminal mastermind. But I've earned myself some liabilities - liabilities I call my anchors in the storm - things that will give me a reason to live and a reason to be patient, a reason to be sensitive, and an antidote to my ambition. There are no villains, just interpretations on which part of the story historians wrote. Thus, Che Guevera, Castro, Hitler....they are great people. 

The most beautiful thing is to have nothing to lose - when you have nothing to lose, or nothing worth losing you can pursue your ambitions with a single-mindedness and fuel it with a creative energy that can penetrate all those walls of doubt ordinary people waste their time defeating themselves over. 

We tend to view moral and virtue in such a dualistic manner. A person or an act is good or evil. We refuse to see the truth that it is incentives and motivations that tame or provoke the nature of unawakeness in us. If I were Hitler, I wouldn't view the killing of millions of Jews as the act of an evil man. Even if I were facing certain death, the objective view is that Hitler is a man of great vision and ambition and he understood psychology well. Is the life of a human over-rated? Hitler and all the bad guys in history probably understood one fact that the regular guy on earth never will - there are people who change the course of mankind and there are the rest, who simply eat, shit and complain. While we need them as labour for our economies and to generate wealth, to have too many of them is unnecessary. 

I profess to know nothing about Hitler but while the rest think this is a man fuelled with so much hatred and evil in him, he probably honestly believes he is doing the world a favour. And what gave Hitler so much potency? It is the regular conformist, the lover of rules and systems who surrender authority to others because they want a convenient life - he understands them well, the things they cherish so dearly which leaves them vulnerable to exploitation. He definitely doesn't feel intense negativity like hatred nor does he see himself in such a low-light that what he is doing is evil.

He is part of a vision of a group of people who understand their own existence better than the many they are about to annihilate. They attract more energy to their visions than negative emotions such as fear, doubt, hopelessness. They are driven by purpose and are ahead of the curve. But the 'evildoers' will always lose because there is one thing so powerful that it can trump everything else many fold - Love. The only thing evildoers lack is to have something or things that they love so much more than their own ambitions. And the one thing the good guys can always count on is the inspiration, creativity and energy that comes from the back of loving, from sensitivity. 

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