Let's assume you are a brand new fledgling power mad evil dude.
Obviously your goal is to become the Ultimate Uber Eevil Overloard and rule the world. {or at least all of it that matters.}
How would you go about it?
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I'd start with the authoritative list myself. :D
By making folks believe that I was the most helpful person concerned with thier welfare and for the most part do just that.
This makes the lists Liz and them provided pale in comparison.
Tocqueville is right american style democracies can become tyrannical by making sure that the population is more concerned with keeping up with the Jonses than what the electorate is doing. But it works in monarchies as well you just have to give the serfs enough to make them disinclined to try and leave thier station and the nobles just enough not to rebel.
The best evil overlord gets folks convinced he's doing all the dirty work on their behalf and gives them enough prosperity and security that they volunteer to give up their rights and not enough prosperity they can get all they desire otherwise they wont work. They need to want the new X their neighbor got so they don't think about what you are doing.
Nothing like having folks throw themselves off the cliff to come to you Thulsa-Doom style.
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You start by doing all the required reading.
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I'd start with the authoritative list myself. :D
HOLY CRAP I NINJA'D THE GNINJA
I have thought about this and usually my plan to become evil overlord results in becoming a good overlord instead. Whoops. All shall love me and despair and have good quality of life and individual freedoms. It's still evil if I'm an immortal dictator, right?
I have thought about this and usually my plan to become evil overlord results in becoming a good overlord instead. Whoops. All shall love me and despair and have good quality of life and individual freedoms. It's still evil if I'm an immortal dictator, right?
As long as you take the lifer prisoners and brainwash/rehabilitate/train them to become Sardakar then, yes.
Okay, so I might have criminals that would normally get a death sentence instead spend eternity in a screaming wall of fused and twisted bones and flesh.
That might be a little evil. No, I'm not Kelemvor! Stop looking at me like that! D:
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I would destroy the world economy and create a new universal one. It would be based on how much people deserve, not want. Of course, I would deserve the most because I was able to take over the world. The list of ways someone could deserve less is expansive, but stupidity and being a jerk are general reasons.
Buildings made in the 60s, 70s, and 80s will probably be destroyed. I really dislike the architecture of those times.
Certain people will be shot on sight. Mostly this would a case by case basis, and where they will be shot will not always be lethal. Most of the people who will be shot are those mentioned in this song.
I will receive the first of all miniatures produced, and if they displease me I will have the sculptor flogged before having him do it again.
Bad art will be severely punished. So will be mistreating good art.
An army of squirrels will be kept as protectors and pets in my private estate.
A monument of me will be erected in every city, major or minor.
I would force a great deal of green policies. My plan would make the world eco-friendly in five years. However, certain animals would hunted until close to extinction. Wild Canadian Geese will be shot on sight. They are filthy, fouls that deserve to be destroyed.
Let's assume you are a brand new fledgling power mad evil dude.
Obviously your goal is to become the Ultimate Uber Eevil Overloard and rule the world. {or at least all of it that matters.}How would you go about it?
Actually none of it matters. Well there are several dress-shops, tea-plantations, and sundry other goods or service-providers which help to make life enjoyable, but it's not actually necessary to run any of it. Not unless you're some sort of egotistical control freak and enjoy stressing out about whether minions are exactly doing what you ordered, how many times a day to whip your feudal lords to optimise loyalty and income, and like being disturbed in the middle of the night to be told that a group of neighbours have pulled together yet another last desperate alliance to crush you and put an end to all your awful tyrannies and etc, etcs.
Now I grant that a certain amount of beings do find That Sort of Thing fun (or else are lackeys of Asmodeus with a rulebook in place of a soul and little choice except to pursue such goals) but personally I'd advise staying at home with half a dozen paladin house-pets to peel grapes and wave big feather fans up and down.
Hoping that you have found this post Helpful.
Yours,
Ask A Succubus.
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Redefine "the world."
We like to think that this is a human's world, that what happens here is because of humanity and that's that.
But it's not. If we went by number of species, number of individuals, or even just plain sheer pounds of animal biomass, you'd see that this is world of ants and krill. (source)
Does this mean that I'd conquer the ants instead of the people? Perhaps, but that is not the point. The point is that the only world that matters is the one we perceive to matter, with all our biases and proclivities and imperfect information. The human world is important, because it's the world we humans can experience.
I would redefine "the world."
Introduce ideas so that I would be considered harmless and unimportant, but compellingly interesting. I would onlybe concerned to make sure that my every need and desire are taken care of, but given the sheer size and complexity of the planet, this would not necessarily be an onerous burden to life on Earth. Who cares if you rule the planet if you can rule your own world?
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Redefine "the world."
We like to think that this is a human's world, that what happens here is because of humanity and that's that.
But it's not. If we went by number of species, number of individuals, or even just plain sheer pounds of animal biomass, you'd see that this is world of ants and krill. (source)
Does this mean that I'd conquer the ants instead of the people? Perhaps, but that is not the point. The point is that the only world that matters is the one we perceive to matter, with all our biases and proclivities and imperfect information. The human world is important, because it's the world we humans can experience.
I would redefine "the world."
Introduce ideas so that I would be considered harmless and unimportant, but compellingly interesting. I would onlybe concerned to make sure that my every need and desire are taken care of, but given the sheer size and complexity of the planet, this would not necessarily be an onerous burden to life on Earth. Who cares if you rule the planet if you can rule your own world?
Oh yeah? Well maybe I'll conquer the humans AND the ants! (And just eat the krill.)
MUAAAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!