I have'nt watched latest batman movie 'The Dark Knight'. Our caped crusader is taking on its arch-enemy, joker. Everyone who has watched the movie is showering praise on joker for displaying evil with perfection. Nobody has time for batman. Batman has taken some sort of backseat. This is not a new phenomena. Our cine goers and film critics always have been smitten by powerful anti-hero. Whether it had been Rahul of Darr or Langra Tyagi of Omkara, these guys always have got away with best laurels. The more mean and evil they are, the more popular they will become. If they are powerful enough to instill a psychological fear into other characters of movie, they become a legend. We just love evil. Our parents may have teach us in our childhood to be a kind, good-natured and soft spoken fellow but these characters just brought all the bitterness and anger against society on the silver screen. Everyone could relate their anger and frustration with those portrayals.
In real-life also, Osama bin laden and Robert Mugabe has bigger fan following than the honest and efficient head of states who are working tirelessly for welfare of their states. It is part of human psychology. We always worship who inspires awe in us. Well this is true for at least for 90% of the people. Ya, I know you are thinking that you belong to 10% minority. Everyone thinks like that. Actually, parents and teachers are wrong in representing the rosy picture of world around you. One should present practical picture of the world to their wards. By instilling feeling of sacrifice, veracity and social welfare in an excess, they just make their ward a emotional handicap. People know that their companion is using them just for their cause or they are going to be cheated by someone, they just let themselves to be exploited on the pretext that they cannot hurt anyone. They just say that it is too late for them to change themselves. It is not just that. It can make their inner self very dark. And they find someone portraying their fantasies on the screen and in real life, these anti-heroes become their god. Now again we are good guys in our own perspective and here lies the main reason for mass popularity of these villains.
Well, there is nothing wrong in it. It is better if people are satisfied with considering beast on screen as their alter-ego. The glamour, power and terror wielded by them is a dream for majority. So, all self-proclaimed good guys an gals say in unison Hey Mogambo!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Well, I agree with your line of reasoning, but not with the conclusion.
Indeed, we have hidden anguish inside us, which erupts in strange ways. Also, we all love the darker things...scandals, rapes, theft, conspiracy...it all excites us.
But the reason for that, I believe, is not that we are all inherently evil, it's just that we never had any motives to do good. And the blame goes to society, religiion, institutions... everyone.
A dog learns quicker when it is rewarded, right? And as far as I can remember, our good efforts were not rewarded, at least not in the proportion that they couls be reinforced.
I love the example of Bible. It is a collection of rules and advice, "Thou shalt not do this...", "Thou shalt not do that..." etc etc. It never gives us any reason to do that.
As a human being we have every right to question and satisfy our curiosity. Recently two Christian guys came to my home, saying that the world is drawing to an end, and we must accept Christ before it is too late...
I asked them a variety of questions, and even after 2 hours of discussion, the only basis they gave for doing what they were doing was because..."The Bible says so..."
Sigh! There is conclusive proof that Bible is the work of man, not God, with lots of controversies surrounding it...
good luck explaining it to those fanatics.
So we see... we are forced to do good, offering no explanation but to have faith in this or that, or because it has been like this ever since.
No thinking being loves this kind of control, hence our attraction towards destruction, which even though achieves nothing, but at least releases some frustration.
What say...
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