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Evil Rant #50- Business of Villainy
The evil businessman is one of the most prevalent villain archetypes in entertainment; let's take a closer
look at these cunning capitalists and megalomaniacal money makers.
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Evil Rant #42- Damn Hipsters!
Taking a critical look at current youth culture, as well as popular contemporary attitudes and philosophical
approaches.
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Evil Rant #36- Villainesque Movie Endings
Is there any preexisting examples of villainesque ideals in mainstream entertainment? Of course, and here
I have provided you with a few of the most delightfully diabolical endings that cinema has to offer.
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Evil Rant #35- Concepts of Evil - Part Four
In this rant, I will help you to understand a villain's ideas about the concept of evil by revealing my own
personal views on the matter; as well as explaining some of the factors which have led me to these rather unique ideas.
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Evil Rant #32- Human Ugliness and Inner Beauty
We examine the correlation between internal and external beauty, and see how stress, self deprecating morality
and general inner worthlessness can prove to be very ugly things indeed.
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Evil Rant #30- Why Villainesque?
Here I explain the concept of the villainesque genre / lifestyle and my reasons for creating and popularizing
this idea. This is what Twisted Jenius is all about!
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Evil Rant #27- Dark Comedies- Part Two
In this sequel, I provide you with some examples and analysis of a few specific dark comedies, and throw in
a bit of my own shady humor while I'm at it.
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Evil Rant #25- Great Wall of Stupidity
In this rant we discover that many people actually choose to believe irrational things and indulge in self
delusion on a massive scale in order to avoid unpleasant truths.
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Evil Rant #24- The Anti Cowboy
Here, we examine the relationship between the common man and his heroes, and compare that to the standards
of villainy. What makes people buy into all of that "good guy" stuff, anyway?
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Evil Rant #23- Ambition and Asking "Why not me?"
In this article, I provide you with some sinister encouragement as well as some examination into the psychology
of ambition and achieving success. It's time to get those forces of darkness working for you.
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Evil Rant #14- Landscapes
Some thoughts on the importance of one's surroundings and environment as well as my own preferences and views
on the matter.
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Evil Rant #13- Fear
In this rant, I give you some insight into this most important human motivation and you will discover how
fear helps to determine a lot about a person and how you might use that information to better analyze others.
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Evil Rant #11- Entertainment vs. Art
In this rant we explore the basic perceptions of art and entertainment as well as how we might judge the two
based on their own, individual merits; to the benefit of both.
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Evil Rant #6- The Myth of Goodness
In this rant, I expose many of the numerous problems with the idea of good (and by extension evil) and give
you some insight into the perception of goodness versus the practical reality of it.
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Evil Rant #5- Rebelling: Pros & Cons
Here we explore various aspects of social rebellion, and get a better understanding of the benefits and drawbacks
involved with being really different.
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Evil Rant #4- Apathy is Bliss
In this rant, I show you how a certain level of "not caring" is essential to happiness and how apathy might
help you to improve your life.
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Evil Rant #3- Concepts of Evil - Part Two
We continue our examination of evil, and discover why certain things might be given that designation by some
people. Part two deals primarily with fear as well as social deviancy.
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Evil Rant #2- Concepts of Evil - Part One
This is a basic primer on the general idea of evil; as well as an explanation of how we will be thinking of
that exceptionally powerful word in future rants. Part one deals primarily with ideas about selfishness.
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Evil Rant #1- Why Villainy?
I believe that some introductions are in order. I'll give you some background as to where I'm coming from
as well as let you know what you can expect from these articles.
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