Who wants to be the good guy who insists on doing the right things no matter how? Answers: the kids, the irrational (or lunatics), and those who have no choice.
The Bad Guy
He does a lot of bad things, to earn a ton of money. He’s considered the epitome of success in our society. He’s always surrounded by the elites, the celebrities, the powerful and the influential. People spend weekends watching baseball games; he spends weekends buying baseball teams, apart from bungalows across the country. Almost everyday some people will come tell him how he has changed their lives with his charity money and “heart of gold”. But when a huge crisis hits and all his ugly deeds exposed, he suffers. He has to endure the pain of selling his Van Gough collection and the social stigma as the fat cat banker for a few years. He has to avoid the public and the press by hiding in one of his 30-bed-room bungalows; or going on an exile in his luxurious yacht or private jet…until people forget what he did and he can come out to start over again.
The Good Guy
He insists on staying sober and doing the right things no matter how crazy the world has become, thus he suffers. He’s marginalized and ignored and antagonized. He struggles in his career, having no ally and barely making his ends meet,simply because he tends to speak out the truth too directly and loudly. He spends most of his adult life in an old 2 -bedroom apartment with Lucky, a mixed-breed shitzu who happnes to be his best friend too. Sometimes he feels angry because bad people who lie and rob and steal can live a good life and enjoy public admiration while he, by sticking to the truth and ethics, has to suffer and be looked down upon. So he prays. If he is lucky, then before he dies a huge crisis may happen and prove that he has been right. By then people may start paying attention to what he has to say. And if he is really lucky, he may start making enough money to finally move into a decent house, and be able to afford United Airlines business class when touring the world sharing his insights.
Now, who wants to be the good guy?
