Villainy and Disillusionment

So as of late there have been several on both sides of the fire that have disappeared and/or retired. Now I understand that personal lives interfere with what it is we all may do online, and in real life, but the question remains, does that change the person beneath? Does the fact that someone leaves being an RLSH means that they have to stop or will stop charity work? Does it mean they have to stop patrolling? See right there is my problem, right there is the problem. As a whole the idea of helping others should not be resolute to the fact that you are this persona, some cheerful guy or some dark brooding figure.

I think that whether you wear a mask or not, whether you are an RLSH or not, that helping others in the world is a very critical, important, and admirable thing. So the fact that Citizen Prime is retired, does that mean he is going to stop helping people? Does that mean he is going to just sit back and stop being a role model for youth? I can almost certainly say no, because despite the ridiculous outfit he is a good person, he is a strong individual that wants to make a positive difference regardless of a suit of armor. That seems to be a point that a lot of RLSH miss altogether. You should be doing good no matter what, you should be out there making a difference no matter what, you do not need a persona, you do not need an alter ego, you do not need to put yourselves on a pedestal and then talk about how you aren't. Look, listen, and heed these words. All of you, every single one of you that has a myspace page, every single one that has a facebook, every single one that posts your picture up on the internet, you are all frauds.

You can attempt to debate me at whatever length you wish, hell you can say whatever the fuck you want, but what this boils down to is that none of you have to put on those masks and that gear. None of you have to go out and "fight" crime. Almost none of you see there are more efficient ways. None of you have to do any of this. But you make the choice, and therein lies the flaw. You all chose to put those masks on, you chose to go out and do all of those things you do. You all want nothing but recognition, one way or another, for personal gain or not, you still wish to be known. You still want to be seen. You want your individual messages out there. If not, we would see a news report along the lines of Batman, "Masked man saves woman, disappears into the night". Now what is stopping any of you from doing this in your every day life? What is stopping you to do these good deeds just because they are right? Why is it that it must be in some form of persona? Is that not just another form of human pride and ego? Look at yourselves, look at what you are, and see that you are flawed from the very concept that you must put on a mask and a suit, no, no you don't need to. You do not need a mask to fight corruption, you do not need some alter-ego to go out and help a community. You choose to do that, chose to become that. There is no reason in the world that is good enough to answer why you put on a mask. "Fear of criminals" you say, well if you were doing things the right way instead of walking up to drug dealers and trying to fight them or tell them to leave all by yourself, there would be no fear of that, and if you keep doing that then you deserve to be shot. All of you continue to say it is not a community, that it is not a movement, that it is a group of people sharing ideas, that you are all too different to come to some standard, and if that's the case you are all worthless stupid fucking idiots. Again there is the problem, it comes down to themselves.

Again I must say, get over yourselves. You can help gather a community together, you can go out and give tips to police, you can make a difference without resorting to a complete comic ideal. That is what most of you lack the understanding of. You feel that this persona makes you a stronger person, that you can be something that you aren't in every day life. THAT IS BULLSHIT!!! If you can do it in a mask, it is no different without it. It is a fucking cloth. Look, I will never knock others for trying to make a difference, I will never get on someone for trying to improve their neighborhood, but to believe that you can go out alone, or even in a small group is the best way to do it then you are pathetic and egotistical. The only way to create change is by unifying people. Gathering your communities together. Seeing one neighborhood join together and start a community watch encourages other neighborhoods to go out and do that, to know that they are not alone, the strength in numbers. To know that their neighbors are looking out for them, that they have people that care about their well being, not just one man stalking the streets looking for dealers and thugs, and may be around to help.

You talk about apathy being a problem, well what about your apathetic nature to the apathetic, "people don't want to stand up and make a difference, they sit back in their lives complacently", well what do you call that attitude? Do you try and find ways to bring them into the light, for them to realize how much they really can help, how much they can do? Do you spend your time trying to organize town meetings, town watches, food drives, house to house donations for food? Do you really devote your efforts to creating strength, to inspire? Or do you worry about your new costume/uniform, your new mask, your new weapons and gear, or your new professionally done myspace page? What is the most important thing about what you are doing? What is the most important factor to what you do? And what is your ultimate goal? Is it to rally people together and to take charge and take control of their lives again? Or is it for you to clean up the streets, is it for you to make their lives safer? Just stop and think about what you are doing, regardless of the fact that you are probably not going to listen to me, despite countless uses of logic. Just stop and climb down off your high horses and really look at the meanings behind what you think you stand for and what you are, not how you see yourselves.

-Virus

Infecting the minds of the self-indulgent

P.S. I know someone is going to say it so I'm fucking clearing this up now, this is applied to the general populace of RLSH not those that do actually do things right, AKA Captain Black and Z and others along those lines, just to get that out there. This is for the people that still live in a little world or black and white and 4 color splash pages in their heads.