Steve Bannon is someone on which a futurist science fiction writer like myself can base some of their dream characters. Shall we say shades of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen, the monster villain in Dune? Even Bannon’s looks fit this bill.
Though he was thrown out of favor by the evil Trump Monarchy, he cannot easily be disposed of in real life. Had he been disloyal in the Kingdom of Saud, he would have been dismembered and made to disappear. But because we don't do that here, he keeps coming back like a dystopian, everready bunny.
No mind, over the past few years, Bannon's mind has provided me with believable interior lives for some of my most dastardly characters.
He loves Friederich von Hayek, one of libertarianism’s founding heroes, thus he reveres a certain brand of authoritarianism. Yes more villain material here.
Bannon also greatly admires the fascist Chilean dictator Pinochet. Like Pinochet, he loathes state regulations, and wants to see an economic system which has no political opposition.
Another of his his gurus appears to be Curtis Yarvin, aka Mencius Moldbug, founder of Urbit. Fabulous, I’ve now found another great evil archetype in Yarvin.
Urbit is a science fiction dream program. It's an interface which bundles various web services into a command center for a “personal server”. For instance, if you log into Urbit you’ll be able to operate Twitter, Instagram, Google, or anything else, from a single place. All the better for complete surveillance of its users.
Under the pseudonym Mencius Moldbug, Yarvin is also one of the predominant authors of the alt-right, neoreaction gospel. Like the badies in many science fiction novels, Yarvin believes democracy is finished.
How about this for a piece of dialogue for his character. “Democracy is finished. Let us rather develop the world as a place of efficient, authoritarian monarchisms.”
Now for the badest of the bad villains I've pulled like a rabbit from a hat from Steve's mind. Julius Evola, also one of his big role models. Evola believed that all women should be conqured for men to retain their true virility. He liked the idea of whipping them as a means of consciousness raising.
Most scary of all as I develop dystopian science fiction characters based on Bannon’s cesspooln and his dreadful role models, I note individualism and totalitarianism lurking there in deadly combination.
This would mean he reveres unfettered capitalism, unregulated industry and any rules or laws that restrain racism and sexism.
Now you can see how, if you're a futuristic science fiction writer like me, honey badger's mind is extremely fertile ground on which I can base many of my most believable villains.
