Yeah, not huge on villains that are evil simply because they are. It's lazy. What this kid just massacred his whole family for no reason? Cool I guess.
They have to make it so that people are born inherently evil, else you would have to look at society etc. this way you can also affirm the Boomer mentality of being harsh and punish the sinners.
They failed to be critical of that trope and instead just incorporated it as their guiding principle, even if we would judge it a bit differently than the chars in season 4. We know that whatever Mr Evil says that the environment of torture and military industrial exploitation that he was put in was actually not beneficial to him (even though he tries to assert his identity and self control by saying only the chosen ones - like Eleven and him - are able to shape society (fascist allegory)).
Though taking a cursed child to be the pure evil which is cursed not by the superhuman abilities, but by his lack of morals and thus being mentally ill, being a deviant to society who tries to bring down the world into chaos is worse than the satanic cults in the 80s was.
It leads to enshrine the ideas of it being good to exclude "mentally ill" - us neurodivergents - from society as we are worse than the US military torturing, killing and inhumanely experimenting on people as we are about to end the world, while the sects of the military are just misguided and try to do the "right thing" TM. It does that in 2022.
Yeah, not huge on villains that are evil simply because they are. It's lazy. What this kid just massacred his whole family for no reason? Cool I guess.
They have to make it so that people are born inherently evil, else you would have to look at society etc. this way you can also affirm the Boomer mentality of being harsh and punish the sinners.
They failed to be critical of that trope and instead just incorporated it as their guiding principle, even if we would judge it a bit differently than the chars in season 4. We know that whatever Mr Evil says that the environment of torture and military industrial exploitation that he was put in was actually not beneficial to him (even though he tries to assert his identity and self control by saying only the chosen ones - like Eleven and him - are able to shape society (fascist allegory)).
Though taking a cursed child to be the pure evil which is cursed not by the superhuman abilities, but by his lack of morals and thus being mentally ill, being a deviant to society who tries to bring down the world into chaos is worse than the satanic cults in the 80s was.
It leads to enshrine the ideas of it being good to exclude "mentally ill" - us neurodivergents - from society as we are worse than the US military torturing, killing and inhumanely experimenting on people as we are about to end the world, while the sects of the military are just misguided and try to do the "right thing" TM. It does that in 2022.