Why Villainy?

 

I could never figure out why it was but for some bizarre reason I would be down in my basement with a girlfriend buck naked and tied to the post holding the house up and, for no explicable reason, she would suddenly ask me why I was into being the bad guy.  At that point I would usually shake my head and remember why the ball gag was laying on the bar.

 

But it’s a good question.

 

And I think the answer to it would be that villains have more fun.

 

Vilains get all the good lines in drama.  They get to wear nice clothes, tie up the damsel and generally cavort as they will.  And if the writers did not cheat the villain would always win because they are smarter and more ruthless than the hero.  Being a villain just makes good sense.

 

Now, let’s take this idea to the realm of psionics and mind control technology.  Orthodox researchers have to jump through all kinds of hoops to get anything done.  They have to get funding, often from academic or government sources.  That means they have to deal with ethics, peer review and all kinds of contractual stuff.  Not only is that boring, but it is a damnable waste of time and their stupid ethics really screw up the reliability of the data.  For example, they can’t seem to get it through their thick skulls that voluntary recievers are going to screw up the results.  Either they will unconsciously lie to make the results look better or they will unconsciously block out the information and make everything look totally failured.  (Hey, I can make up fake words too!)  The only way around this is to experiment on people who don’t know they are being experimented on.

 

The orthodox hearing this scream, “Unethical!!!!”

 

To which the villain can reply, “So what?”

 

Always remember one of the first rules of villainy:  Victims are scum, that’s why they are victims.

 

So with the freedom to act untrammeled by any sense of morality, you can get results that will make the orthodox researchers turn many shades of envious green.  And you can make your own life happier as well.  If you want to know what a business competitor or political rival is up to, you can simply remote view him and find out.  If a company screws you over, you can use remote presence to foul up its computer system.  If you need to remove someone permanently you can do it without any fear of reprecussion.  After all, if you are a charming raconteur, what is a little murder between friends?  Human life is such a small and meaningless thing, hardly worth the trouble of noting, much less all the ridiculous fuss that is paid to it.

 

By being the villain, you remove yourself from the means of social control.  You can say the most outrageous things and do the most outrageous things and if any remonstrate with you all you have to do is look at them and say, “But of course.  I’m the bad guy, remember?”  And with the elements of psionics properly applied you can become immune from coercive control as well, because never forget that one of the ultimate ends of psionics will be to render law impossible by the process of rendering its enforcement suicidal.

 

When you are a villain you can do anything you want.  Even forget to untie your girlfriend until the next morning.