A hero is not a hero unless he or she totally outmatches
ordinary people. The nameless baddies need not be incompetent for the hero to
easily best them. Ordinary people are simply no match for heroes.
When ordinary people are well-trained and well-equipped
they are better than they would be otherwise… but are still ordinary. They are
simply refined and augmented specimens of the common folk.
A hero is not a hero by his courage. Even common folk can
be brave. A hero is innately above and beyond the ordinary. He is
extraordinary.
A mastermind makes use of ordinary people. He may hire
them or conscript them, one way or another. He may train and equip them or
simply use them as they are. They are expendable regardless.
Most people are incompetent because they are simply
indifferent. If allowed to be lazy, they will be. Discipline and training can
force them to be otherwise. Propaganda provides thoughts for the mindless.
Indoctrination gives the aimless a sense of purpose.
A mastermind sets the agenda. The common folk hear the
propaganda. The agenda behind the propaganda is the guiding principle. The
mastermind is the will to evil, not his or her underlings, though they all have
their own selfish motives.
A hero is typically outnumbered. He slaughters droves of
ordinary folk. He cannot win no matter how many of them kills, however. The
agenda is the villainy, not the cheap lives of its cannon-fodder. The
mastermind must be defeated.
Every mastermind commands lesser bosses. They manage his
agenda. They may be assumed to be the masterminds, but are not. One is the quantity by which all
quantities exist. There is always the one
from whom all the others are derived.
Spirit is called “wind” because like wind, you cannot see
the spiritual but you feel it and see its effect. Our imagination turns our
invisible reality into art and fiction. The images are symbols and the
scenarios allegories.
Real people are heroes or sidekicks, or damsels in
distress, or masterminds, or nameless baddies. Some of them are monsters. What
you think is irrelevant. What you are is decided by how you live your
life. A hero cannot help but be heroic. A mastermind cannot help but set an agenda
and strive for it. Everyone else really is along for the ride.
Awesome, indeed thoughts are irrelevant it's about who you really are. An actual hero can have fearful thoughts but cannot help but jump on a grenade to save his friends. A hero in fiction must be great in action not just courage, intentions do not make a hero they must be able to follow through. The whole notion that everyone can be a hero if they believe in themselves is fairness propaganda.
ReplyDeleteOne thing that I have always been fascinated with is how the ordinary people become the hands of the mastermind. The hero has to kill them merely to cause wounding blows to the mastermind. It is comparable to a giant robot fight in ways (hero vs a giant robot to be clear) but only as an analogy.
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