When your government and a bunch of the regular people base their happiness literally on making other people unhappy because they’re unhappy…that’s what you get. It’s also like a drug, the antagonists’ happiness with their successes is short-lived, so they need to inflict more and more terrible things on others for that feel-good sadistic kick that doesn’t actually solve any of the problems that pushed us down this path.
When your government and a bunch of the regular people base their happiness literally on making other people unhappy because they’re unhappy…that’s what you get. It’s also like a drug, the antagonists’ happiness with their successes is short-lived, so they need to inflict more and more terrible things on others for that feel-good sadistic kick that doesn’t actually solve any of the problems that pushed us down this path.