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All these dipshits who watched the Matrix and were like "actually Agent Smith has a good point"...

Some people identify with the cool zero-fucks-given villains.

I suspect an aspect is that they often don't love the movies, comics, etc. They love the *idea* of them, of appropriating them (like Springsteen or The Odyssey), of putting their brand on them (like Trump renaming the Kennedy Centre).

Same way cops and Klansmen sing along with Killing in the Name and get cross when Rage Against the Machine 'go all political'.

They think they are way smarter than any of the characters in those stories and the authors of them for that matter. So therefore the "lessons" don't apply to them.

<watching Homelander> "Yeah! This is more like it!"

they consistently identify with clearly positioned villains, I think it's a bit naive to expect them to comprehend the finer moral points

In Bed with the Right had 3 good episodes about rw fandom recently: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Nightmare blunt rotation

I mean, they could put themselves at the forefront of trying to fix climate change, or at least make it more survivable, but that would take not only innovation, but caring about human beings.

it also doesnt help that ever since the Iphone, 99% of people’s tech problems are already solved now

These are the guys who watch this stuff and then say things like, "I like sci-fi that isn't political, like Starship Troopers and Battlestar Gallactica," and it makes me die on the inside a little bit every time I hear it.

Wait. So you're telling me that "torment nexus" meme was a joke, not a role model???

The evil empires they're courageously fighting against are people making mean comments about them and people who don't like the Torment Nexus.

They see themselves as the most important creatives out there.

Tolkien fanboys creating orc-dogs.

They only want power, and power in scifi fiction necessitates creating a dystopia.