Do highly intelligent evil people exist in powerful high profile positions, similar to movie archetypes? Off the top of my head Unabomber is the only guy that comes to mind in recent positions.
Not talking about your average CEO being a dick to third-worlders or something I mean actual movie evil geniuses
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yes and no
most of those movie villains aren't mustache-twirling evildoers that just want chaos and death for the sake of itself, but rather people that want what they see as 'good' for the world at any cost. they have a perverted sense of justice that, when combined with their innate skills and warped amoral sensibilities, allows them to do pretty much anything for the sake of some greater good, whether that's mankind preserved under their rule or just an idea for some better future
and by that definition, pretty much any major politician or tech giant. good guys rarely rise to the top in cutthroat places
>unabomber
>powerful high profile positions
What? Ted lived like a hobo in a small cuckshed in the woods.
Whats powerful and high profile about that?
He was a nobody
they usually get suicided in prison
Usually the genius who invents all the cool technology isn't the CEO who runs the company. Even guys we think of as being smart/tech-savvy like Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, etc., are mostly just monetizing other people's work.
Ted only ever was an assistant professor before he quit to go innawoods so what do you mean?
I'm not sayong that's nothing, but Ozymandias he was not.
Check out McaFee
Trump
Epstein
Clinton
Easy OP
Nonono Trumpepe is one of us!
Yeah, but not to the extent as shown in fiction. Most first generation rich people most likely have above average intelligence which probably plays a big role when they strike big. However, they stay rich and become even more rich by paying intelligent and knowledgeable people to advice them. In the end, most rich people's power come from their money rather than intelligence.
>on the run from the law cause he just wants to chill out and not be forced to pay insane taxes
>ousted from all tech power cause he was singularly opposed to invasion of privacy and just wanted to leave people alone
he's more the embodiment of ancap ball than anything evil
well aside from maybe neighbor killing, but certainly not one of the world-conquering evil types
>highly intelligent
>Trump
Pick one
Define "evil"
Henry Kissinger
Dick Chaney
George Soros
Assad (more like a lovable Dr. No)
Bibi (the not lovable Dr. No)
Epstein's a retard too. Just a Plutocrat with brain rot who new the formerly right people. He wanted to seed the human population by fucking and sucking little girls.
>Ozymandias
>evil
redard
Putin seems to be pretty smart and obviously evil
>ozymandias
>Evil
What the fuck?
they have to be megalomaniacs like pic related, wanting the world to be shaped around their own rules, it isn´t easy
Evil? I don't know. Clearly geocentric to his own concerns and with enough power to flex it. I stay out of Russian politics as I don't live on that part of the world and it would be absolutely unfounded for me to make any claim either way.
The Crimea thing seemed aggressive though.
Ozzy was 100% correct in his assertions on the failings of mankind. Also 100% wrong to manipulate and capitalize on it. Manipulating people to buy your iPhone is suspect, manipulating entire national superpowers by nuking a bunch of innocent people to uphold a blatant fabrication is downright evil.
This is why I love a character like Conan. All the same qualities of someone like Griffith but without an ounce of the vainglory. He doesn't care if the rest of the world follows his outlook, he actually prefers it doesn't as it gives him openings to exploit. But he likewise won't hesitate to fuck you over because of your failing and laugh in your face about how that failing was your downfall. Then he'll fuck your woman. And steal your horse. All while laughing.
ozymandias was a dumb fag. making a giant alien monster appear in NYC and kill people isn't gonna stop humanity from squabbling. if anything there'd be finger pointing right after the incident, USA might even blame the soviets and trigger WW3 right then and there
if you think some of these CEOs arent themselves evil geniuses by merit of getting to that top spot and keeping it, you're missing the point of how the system works
>What did he mean?
No, it's propaganda from the bourgeoisie. Most people in power get there from connections and family history. Aristocracy never went away it just changed names and got better PR.
They look quite distinctively differently, though.
It's not just about being smarter, it's about knowing things you don't
Forbidden knowledge, I mean
No go- I mean guy, you're just being paranoid
both
>powerful high profile positions
>Unabomber
He lived in the fucking woods.
Weed smokers are evil though
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Is Conan Chaotic Neutral ?
They definitely exist in real life except I do sort of question his intelligence.
Largley. He will go into good territory if you are ruining children's lives but just barely. Instead of saving the kids he'd give the most likely to succeed a sword and let him try and save himself and the others. If he fails, thats on them.
He lets "innocent" women fail all the time because they will exhibit some sort of hubris that amounts to "you should have known better." But instead of letting them die he'd knock them out and leave them there to wake and up and feel how stupid they are.
He is a much more complex character than people give him credit for. He's much more than a strongman that kills stuff with a sword. He does that amazingly though too.
>unabomber
>evil
Good bait OP
>unabomber
>high profile
he was an outcast living in the middle of nowhere montana.
he had delusions of grandeur, but he never held any position of importance after he dropped out of society in his twenties
His only actual failing in the movie is he was so absorbed with his work he didn't once see Manhattan deconstitute or reconstitute himself once, when it happened all the fucking time. It was Manny's #1 mode of conveyance. If he just looked up from the desk once he would have realized his whole final trick was going to fail instantly. What he would have done then? No clue.
>implying the unabomber was powerful
>implying the unabomber was evil
Either shit bait or you’re retarded
>never held a position of importance
He was a CIA goon that singlehandedly changed geopolitics and personal liberty law in the US in a single day. Seems like a pretty important place in history for one man to hold.
John WIlkes Booth was a shitty (decent) actor that held a much more high profile position, for 1 night, and it changed how history would remember him. And changed how the day to day life of a US president would operate thereafter.
>insert quote about change coming from the smallest and unlikeliest places. - Snape, addressing Han Solo.
>user who knows the truth is trying to bait someone to mention it
And he got one
Ozzy was trying to save the world from nuclear holocaust
How is Uncle Ted doing these days?
Can I still write him letters?
by not-nuking the world. Yeah its a shit plan.
>"but you Adrian... you are just a man."
No better way to put it. He was outclassed by virtually every metric you can measure a man against (when unfairly measuring him against a psuedo-god). Except the one that won him the day.