Have we come to the point that the villain is the hero of the piece? There is something to be said for making the villain balance with the hero. A good story should include believable characters. But, have we gone so far that the villain is now the best character in the story?

Not being evil, there is no reason that any of us should understand the motives of evil. That excludes those of us who really are evil to whom the motivations of good people are a mystery. Evil is evil by its nature. By our fallen nature, each of us has an unhealthy dose of evil within him and this can give us the ability to sympathize with evil. We think that we understand evil and that is the deadliest of all delusions.

Amongst some tribes indigenous to this continent, it was once considered braver to run up to an enemy, touch him with a stick and return unscathed than it was to actually kill that enemy. Does that make sense to you? Can you understand what it is to dominate yourself? Honor is hard to understand when evil is the light by which you see the world around you.

If this room was filled with gas vapors, then a spark would produce a scattered collection of toothpicks. However, if you contain those same vapors to a series of cylinders, it’s off to grandmother’s house we go. Chaos is easier and may seem more powerful in the instant but there is no future in it. Evil is within us, yet we are given a very real choice.

Why is it that we now want our heroes to be weaker than we are? Are we afraid to be driven to climb higher and see further than our ancestors? I like to look up to my heroes. To my mind, I would think ill of the next generation if it did not exceed all that I am and all that I have done in the time I have been given on God’s green Earth.

On the flip side, are we drawn to the villain because he has the easier way? We are born fallen and have to climb up from there. All men are created equal and can only go up from there. Why should we settle for the role of the villain? Do we reject the hero because we no longer want the job?

I, the stand up philosopher, created two villains in the never ending story section of Secrets of the Universe. We have half a dozen heroes and only one writer running all of them. For the villain, it is a one to one relationship. Have we come to the point in the story where the villain is the hero of the piece? Maybe we’ve come to the point in the story where not fighting is more important than peace.

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