How to Be an Evil Villain part 2: Control the Media
This is part two of my "How to Be an Evil Villain" series although part 1 was suspiciously erased completely from my blog. This is no lie. I must be on to something. My first post was about gaining influence over other people, which I intend to rewrite eventually. But in the meantime, here is the second lesson on becoming an evil villain. One of the most essential parts of being a villain is that you need to make other people think you are the hero, or at least neutral. Comic books make it painfully clear who is bad and who is good but the real world is not so easily sorted. We have words like "terrorist", "dictator", and "bully" that help us discriminate between the good and bad but the ugly part of this is that no one, including the terrorists and the dictators and the bullies think they are the bad guys. A lot of "evil" behaviour is carried out by people who truly believe that they are doing the right thing and what's worse, th...