Why do bad people always want to rule the world?

Trenton 2022-04-20 09:01:06

I have watched a lot of hero movies, and the bad guys in them either want to rule the world or destroy the world.
I used to think that such a character setting is extremely perverted. I am not complaining about bad people, nor do I think that good people are as good as they are. It wasn't until I watched this movie that I suddenly realized that the bad guy is actually a metaphor. If people don't like "evil" behavior, they must give "evil" an image, just as people worship "God", they must give "God" an image.
There are some people who see a cup and believe that the cup is the cup, nothing more to say. Some people think that what we see is just a big feeling, a collection of ideas about the cup, such as color, shape, etc. No one knows what is behind it.
Imagine that 8 out of 10 people have both the concept of shape and the concept of color, and among the remaining 2 people, one person who has no concept of shape cannot distinguish the difference between the shapes of two cups; one has no concept of color. Humans can't tell the difference between the colors of the two cups. What will happen? Those two people were defined as "abnormal" and "sick". why? Because those 2 people have different ideas from the other 8 people. Going a step further, ideas need to be sorted under the constraints. To give an example that is not very rigorous but because of this often quarreling example - patriotism and self-love, one must be ranked first. 9 out of 10 people are more patriotic, 1 loves themselves more, and that 1 will get a big hat. why? Because only concepts are not enough, people also want the concepts to be arranged in an orderly manner.
The examples given above will not lead to conflicts, or will not lead to major conflicts, but let’s take a look at history, Qin Shihuang’s unification, the crusades, and world wars; let’s look at the present, terrorism, the dispute over the Diaoyu Islands; Take a look at the front, the debates and abuses on the issue on Zhihu and Weibo... From ancient times to the present, because of different concepts, there are conflicts and contradictions everywhere in this world, and there is no sign of "contradiction" to end in the future.
Each person's concept set is this person's world. The world is not someone else's, but your own. In one's own world, various concepts are arranged in an orderly manner according to one's own will. Under different circumstances, one can freely adjust the order of choice. This is freedom. Therefore, freedom is never the whole, but one's own. Differences in concepts between people, and their choices that are free and in line with free will, will lead to contradictions and conflicts.
"Bad people" are actions or thoughts that try to eliminate conflict and keep everyone's ideas in a consistent order. Those who want to destroy the world in the movie are a group of desperate people who think that only by destroying the world can eliminate all kinds of contradictions and conflicts; those who want to rule the world want to use unified rules to bind everyone, which can also eliminate contradictions and conflicts. . All this needs to come at the cost of "freedom", and the world needs to be the same for everyone. This is terrible, not just human life, a life is a world. Therefore, we need heroes, even in our hearts, we recognize that contradictions and conflicts are inevitable, but because of this, everyone has freedom, and everyone can realize their own values ​​according to free will, not the world.
So the heroes never want to rule the world, they only target the "bad guys". Therefore, heroes are never afraid of power. They say that they want to protect the people, but in fact they want to protect the difference of ideas and protect everyone's free will. What is justice? Justice is not the concept of 99% of people. Justice is to maintain the freedom of 100% of people. Therefore, justice itself has shortcomings, because freedom can lead to contradictions and conflicts, but this is the world, and everyone's world is different.
It is very strange that even though human beings have not gone extinct, I think it is the credit of "God" who arranged an "invisible hand", which makes me believe that there is an order of "predetermined harmony" between everyone's world , do not seek common ground, harmony is good.

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