Ed Calderon

Yeah.

Versus, is this different than the propaganda machine of, I have something to say, I have...

some message to put out there to play the game of politics and power and money and all that kind of stuff?

Isn't there also a human being underneath all that armor that for the sake of perhaps ego, legacy, wants to be understood?

So creating a myth, the legend of the man.

I mean, I think you could try.

I'm interested in that kind of thing because ultimately in some of those places, like inside a cartel at the very top, is when you can really look at the raw aspects of human nature in a way you can't necessarily elsewhere.

So there's like a deep morality to all of that.

Underneath the violence, there's a humanity.

People should check out your Patreon.

You should check out your field notes.

You're a really good writer.

Your Instagram, too.

You write about, you have a quote in your field notes about villains.

Quote, I once worked for a villain, a savior to some and a biblical demon of old to others, a true product of his environment.

He was the best and the worst of us.

We're all potential villains in someone else's story, he would say to us as we would head out into the unknowns that the night had waiting for us.

It was during one of these nights that I looked around me and saw horns and pitchforks among my people and realized what he meant.

We were no knights of the round table.

Whatever we were, we were needed.