On the optimism of moustache-twirling villainy

[davywavy]

I think it's fairly obvious that Richard Asquith Dastardly, or "Dick" to his friends, is a hero of mine. I've been asked from time to time why it is I use a selection of pulp and comic villains as my LJ icons and I think that's something worth asnwering - it's because comic villains, as opposed to real villains, are aspirational.
Perhaps not in their objectives, but in their degreee of motivation. Dick Dastardly, for example, is utterly indefatigable. No matter how badly wrong things go for him, within thirty seconds he's back on his feet with another plan. He is a paragon of imagination and optimism - much more so than many other characters or real people one might meet. How might we all learn from that? Life throws him off cliffs, blows him up with dodgy ACME products or runs him flat with a steam engine, but Dastardly never stops trying. He's full of get up and go. This is true of all great cartoon vaillains. They are never at a loss for a plan or for optimism. They're proactive, inventive and constantly 'think outside the box' - all things which we're encouraged to do in our everyday lives.
Moreover, villains get all the girls, the best dialogue and they seem to have the most fun. After all, who seems to enjoy themselves more? Dick Dastardly or Peter Perfect?

With that in mind, I've given up on my ambition to own a Lotus, and I want one of these instead:


And as soon as I can find a girl who'll drive round in this, I'm sure we'll have a whale of a time together:

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Sadly, real life teaches us two things about villainy:

Real villains are not moustache twirling fiends with grandiose plans for world domination,they are self serving gimps from Sedgefield.

They usually get away with it.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

There's a difference between comic villainy and real villainy, which is why I restrict myself to the comic variety, whilst dedicating myself to real life goodness. I'm like the best of both worlds.

[(Anonymous)]

Do you also extract some amusement from parodying Her Majesties Government, which has chosen an entirely opposite course?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

It's the only way I'm going to get any satisfaction out of that bunch of worthless, spongelike vermin.
There was a headline in the financial pages of one of the papers a while back which said something like "Labour Party Bankrupt". I was surprised to learn that they didn't mean morally or intellectually, but just that they've been running their own finainces in the same way that they've been running the country's for the last ten years and it's finally bitten them.
I was toying with making a post along those lines too.

[(Anonymous)]

Save your energy. Anyone who can read has already drawn that inevitable conclusion. Devote yourself to good works, like creating wealth, so when this current shower are ousted, (one would hope directly to the tower) their replacements will find the country not beyond repair.