We all love to see heroes look good and win, and we all love to see villains lose. Even if the villain has more heroic qualities than the heroes. That is the case with John Wayne/Marion Morrison and the Indian chief. “The Duke” always wins and rides off into the sunset or saves Iwo Jima, while the main villains fighting “The Duke” are and mean ‘nothing’ but a savage opposition that has no validity at all. Isn’t that a metaphor from all of modern history for the archetypal hero as all kinds of John Wayne/”Duke” and the opposition of him? In fact, the “winners” have come to tell their biased stories without looking at the other side of things or the point of view of the “losers.” His whole logic says that “we’re supposed to win, and history is one-sided, that’s all.”
I’m here to logically and honestly present the “losers” side of the story, now: call them Moors, Indians, Blacks, “Deadwood Nat Loves”, “Black Barts”, Natives, “The Enemies”, “The Bad Guys” or whatever the case may be.
The injustice and unjust nature of the heroes runs so deep that the realities of the villains are avoided at all costs until building a fantasy world of all “heroes” always winning without losing. forever.
The concept of the heroic and infallible leader, and the villain always losing without virtue or consideration or without thinking about the villain’s point of view or even the genuine values of the villains is a sick and unfair bias in any situation in reality. It’s not just the “winners” who should write the stories, the real and genuinely objective story should honestly include all of us, not just lean towards the “heroes and winners of the game” who “rule the roost” in that let’s kill the wild somehow. How is that genuinely heroic anyway? Kill rather than fight righteously and then create a world for yourself by making anyone who disagrees with you appear righteous in a disagreeable way?
Everyone naturally loves a hero. Everyone loves to win, naturally. When you have to cheat to win, is it worth it? Is it worth it if victory is based on a lie instead of the real, honest truth? Sure, we can start by crying that “Birth of a Nation” was the greatest movie ever made, and John Wayne deserved a monument at the airport for helping to hide the realities and honest truths of what happened to the “villains” of that “hero-leaning” reality that screams “we’re the winners and you can’t do anything about it.”
Well, I’m a “villain”, I confess, I’m not one of those “sweet and handsome white heroes” who wins “everything” or supports the establishment of “heroes”, I’ve always been “type B” and “Brand X”, not “type A” and establishment. Laugh at me all you want, but I’m the tortoise who really wins with complete honesty instead of the rabbit or the hare who lies to himself and loses everything, trying to cheat and deceitfully speed up in the story of “The Tortoise and Hare” every time. Now I proudly say that I am the “Moorish Indian chief’s bad boy” that the “John Waynes” fight against.