Mind Fog

For those of you who played Baldur's Gate 2, its expansion the Throne of Bhaal or even the Ice Wind Dale series, you'd know exactly what I'm talking about. It's the blue fog that comes out of the dastardy Brain Golem that wanders the halls of the Illithid. It's the fog that drains one will save regardless if they were completely immune to magic and the like. The tricky thing about mind fog, is that it's not something that's rather fun to be in while the damn Illithid are ripping through my character's brains. Thus I always sought to clear out the brain golems before the party engages any of the Illithid that wander the damnable hive.

I send Imoen equipped with that wonderful staff of golem slaying and seek these golems out while I project image and beat the crap out of them with that beat stick I bought with a ton of gold. Incidentally, she is one of the cutest goddesses of murder you can know. Quite unlike the murderous father that she had. I suppose that's what you get when you have a baby with a positive bimbo. I seriously wonder what Bhaal was thinking by having a child with a bimbo like that. Maybe he was just "distracted" heh...

But back to this blog entry, what is mind fog? I suppose it even exists in Real Life. In whatever form it takes, it definitely saps the will of the people engulfed in it. However, unlike the mind fog in the game, it doesn't wear off when the cloud dissipates. Quite ironic that the mind fog in the real world is really much scarier than the fog that's in a fantasy world where the impossible seems like nothing. If you look around, there's actually lots of more things in Real Life that are much more frightening than in the fantasy world. It maybe made up of people's imagination, I suppose that it's quite babyish in that manner. Anyone who knows the true horror of human nature will say that Dungeon and Dragons and all it's other incarnations, regardless it's Sci-fi or Fantasy, pales in comparison of serial killers who literally etch terror into their victims.

Or war crimes committed during the World wars, in Africa's civil wars and even the war in Vietnam have crimes that will sicken and frighten those possessing hardest of stomachs. I for one was quite appalled by the things that have been done. But it will never end, the pain and the suffering will continue as long as humanity exists. Without such brutality, we will lose our moral compass and eventually sink into depravity. Our laws will twist and our minds will warp. Until one day, the very acts thought to be vanquished return into society and become accepted as a common practice.

Such an occurrence shall happen IF we get rid of all that is evil and bad in the world. I'm not saying that it should run rampant. But I'm just saying that these "evil" people give us our moral direction. Without people like them to reflect upon, we will be unable to see beyond our own judgements. Without a greater evil, we literally become it. So in order to maintain some semblance of good at least, we have to tolerate some evil. To have the greatest good, would also mean you've have to have the greatest evil. Which will lead humanity into countless wars and conflicts. So to prevent that, we need moderate good and evil which can remain in a stalemate for a long time to come.

For a stalemate in good and evil means peace and usually much more prosperity compared to the conflicts between the greater good and evil. As long as a balance is maintained between the two, human kind shall live long and be enlightened. But as long as one side keeps getting stronger unabated, human kind shall suffer endless depravity. We all know the problems of evil getting too strong, but what the good getting too strong? Let us take a simple game like Diablo 2. It talks about the 3 prime evils, Hate a.k.a. Mephisto, Destruction a.k.a. Bhaal and Terror a.k.a. Diablo. It talks about how Diablo corrupted and took over a brave hero who had come to vanquish him. It also tells of how Bhaal corrupted Tal Rasha who was a great mage of great principal and morals. And lastly, it also mentions how Mephisto corrupted Lazarus and the head of the monastic order.

IF this is how evil starts destroying the world, then good will destroy the world in a similar manner. Without Mephisto leading the fanatical cult of the Zakarum. Their pious leader with absolute power and absolute goodness will not have anyone morally capable of opposing them. Thus any action taken by their leader and their whole religion will be taken as what's right. Thus Mephisto is only but a symbol of which the religion eventually falls and becomes a cult. Too much power and the leaders become corrupted. In this case a demon was truly behind the problems. But in Real Life, great religious leaders have caused so much deaths as well. They have so much power over people who believe in them, that they are almost like God.

By listening to them, people believe that they will receive salvation. And one of the most prolific religious leaders of our day and age is no other than Osama Bin Laden. This is proof that too much good can destroy this world. In the eyes of his believers, he is definitely good. Thus there was no balance. People would not be swayed by the words of others because he has instilled the very essence of what is "good" into people's hearts. Any such pure "goodness" that is so absolute, shall rip the world asunder faster, harder and into smaller pieces than pure evil. I do believe that in our governments, our politicians should not be squeaky clean. So that when they start doing unethical things, people will start rejecting him because he isn't of a pure repute.

If our political leaders were completely clean of misdeeds. Then the people will have no reason to doubt and question them. Thus IF the leader decides to oppose the world by acquiring nuclear warheads and bio-weapons, the country can do nothing but judge that action upon his sterling reputation in the country. One such example is the Leader of North Korea Kim Jung Ill the 2nd. In his country, he is regarded to have done nothing wrong despite his international reputation. IF he wasn't so clean in his country's eyes, he would have fallen a long time ago and replaced with a different politician the moment he started the nuclear project.

Revolutions are only done when people are motivated enough to start one. Thus if people do not have a reason to oppose the current leadership, the world shall continue to suffer the rule of a despot that will eventually become a tyrant. It doesn't take too long for absolute power to corrupt an individual. And it's proven true that power warps your judgements. Perhaps in time, people will understand that a chaotic political system where there's no true victor, shall be what will enable peace in the long term. With no one single power to corrupt a country, then no matter what the damage is, it will be minimal. So you know, there's no such thing as true good and true evil. Its all a matter of perspective. Alauz Out.

Idiots of today, Geniuses of tomorrow