Idle Thinking Descends Into Philosophy Pooptoot, aka: @pastelbat
"How far back does the 'Tuff man does badcrimes, to protect society from badder tuffmans, doing badder badcrimes!!' trope go?"
"It resurged post 9/11, but 80-90s media was full of it already. The 70s also had its versions, and going back further.. The Noir Detective genre of the 1920s.. Do I know any examples before the 1920s..?"
🧠: "Thomas Hobbes, 'The Leviathan', 1651."
"Damn. I mean.. You're not wrong."
re: Idle Thinking Descends Into Philosophy Pooptoot, aka: @pastelbat
TLDR: "Kings are awful, selfish, immoral jerks. This is because people are awful, selfish, immoral jerks. Having one jerk in charge is better than all the jerks doing whatever they want."
(and now you've read The Leviathan)