06-30-2020, 06:37 AM
There was actually a perfect analogue for this in popular media recently, on Netflix. In Fargo’s second season, Bokeem Woodbine plays a gangster that has his eyes set on the big time, and works, to murderous effect, to gain his promotion at the end of the season.
When he arrives there, however, he finds to his disappointment that all of the truly evil (competently evil) people in this higher organization are basically organized like any other corporation. He is given a small office, a desk, and a stack of papers to work through. Then he told that the people that REALLY succeed in the organization are the ones that are able to reorganize things to more efficiently retain profits.
No more shooting or direct killing. He has entered the world where you kill with a pen and spreadsheet instead of bullets. Genghis has supposedly moved into a realm higher than that. Who knows what incredibly boring form evil takes at that level?
When he arrives there, however, he finds to his disappointment that all of the truly evil (competently evil) people in this higher organization are basically organized like any other corporation. He is given a small office, a desk, and a stack of papers to work through. Then he told that the people that REALLY succeed in the organization are the ones that are able to reorganize things to more efficiently retain profits.
No more shooting or direct killing. He has entered the world where you kill with a pen and spreadsheet instead of bullets. Genghis has supposedly moved into a realm higher than that. Who knows what incredibly boring form evil takes at that level?