Melancholy

A villain can be an autocrat, a tyrant, like chancellor Sutler, or he can be a hedonists like Dorian Gray, who is driven by primal vices, or he can have a misplaced sense of righteousness, like the Joker. But the common denominator is that they are usually finite, or a sect of people. What I mean is that they are not the general consensus and when our hero with his team incarcerates them, he is bolstered by the audience( and his trivial cast members). Even in history books you will find always a single person being blamed.

Just before you go to sleep, you enter in a state of pure reverie and you yourself vanquish the vile and there is a sense of satisfaction in the morning after.

But what if the vices are that of common public. Like full theater with audience rooting for this villain or his character, his rationales. A culpable act not illegal, or worse, not considered immoral. 
In fact I should recant my previous statement about the history book, we can find ample instances of society gone wrong, with slavery, inquisitions, segregation. Place yourself in a time or place like that (if you do not live in one), and if you possess a vivid imagination you will be able to feel what I feel today. As time passes by, if one's eyes are open, one start to realize the much hyped miseries of the world. 'Hyped' for the young, younger me, when my thoughts were possessed with cricket, physics and GTA.

I miss home.

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