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negan smith, one of the many villains within the popular
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Tv series, The Walking Dead which is based on a
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group of survivors of a zombie apocalypse and their various
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struggles continuing on what their distorted life negan is seen
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as the most feared villain in the series.
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He's best known as the leader of the saviors who
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are an opposing group to rick and alexandria.
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The main characters and the saviors seem to use their
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power resources and size to subjugate other communities kind of
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like creating colonies.
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When we meet negan, he's strictly a villain.
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However, to do an analysis on him, himself and him
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as a villain, we have to go to an episode
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much later in the series where we are given his
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backstory okay, NEgan's backstory goes as we learn that he
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has a wife.
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However he didn't treat it like a wife, he didn't
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spend time with her, he cheated on her, he buys
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things without her permission when they are low on money,
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he was overall just not a good husband.
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However, negan tries to make up make it up to
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her after he finds out she has cancer after the
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apocalypse hit*** and his wife really bond during her
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time being locked up in the house and all she
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even eventually forgives him.
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However she's becoming very ill.
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Yeah, NEgan one day shuts off the generator to prevent
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attracting zombies which sound usually attract zombies overnight.
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His wife's medicine goes bad in the freezer and you
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can then insists on going out and getting more and
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he goes out for about four weeks.
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He's lucky enough to find people that helped him and
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give him the chemotherapy treatments.
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Their names are franklin and Laura.
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However, negan is captured on the way back by Vandals
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and in order to be released from their hold, he
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has to give them the location of the people who
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gave them the medicine, negan gives up franklin and Laura's
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location and goes back to his home only to find
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that his wife is dead.
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The point to really take note on our his actions
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after following his wife's death, he sets his house on
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fire. He returns to the Vandals and kills all of
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them brutally to rescue franklin and Laura.
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This helps gives insight into what him and his saviors
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will later take part in though they relish in violence.
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The saviors do have a mission to save people.
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As time goes on, we see negan not only become
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more powerful but more evil, he creates a civilization where
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he is a dictator and he treats all others like
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extreme subordinates.
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However, he's under the impression that he's saving them because
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in the best of world he is, he's in protection
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uh the shelter food.
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It's pretty much saving them and like you said, franklin
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and Laura by killing the Vandals, killing others and protecting
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those who help you is the only way to live
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life. The National Center for biotechnology puts out a study
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on how intense life experiences are not only memorable in
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and of themselves, but they also can change the way
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we experience events in the future.
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In cases of stressful and traumatic life events.
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The memories for those events become forever impregnated in the
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minds and alter many of their responses to future life
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events. Even in those situations, not obviously related to those
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traumatic or stressful events, negan goes through his life under
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the impression that violence and authoritative ruling is the best
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way to make it through the messed up world he's
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living in whenever someone wrongs him or tries to get
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in the way of his bigger picture, he makes an
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example out of them.
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After one of some of the main group of characters
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try to leave his overall community, NEgan brutally kills two
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of them in front of their friends and family.
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Also, after one of his military officers decides to disobey
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his orders, he strangles him to death in front of
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the whole army, NEgan's past experiences are one of the
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main reasons he's unsuccessful only creating a successful civilization.
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However, as a villain, negan presents an alternate way of
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living during an apocalypse.
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The world has basically started over millions and millions of
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people have died.
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There's no internet, no government, no system, no anything and
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a bunch of flesh eating zombies.
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I wanted to kill you, just roaming the streets.
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It's basically just a bunch of groups trying to survive
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and build back the world to what it was before.
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On one hand, you have Rick and his group, they're
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seen as the good guys level civilization where everyone is
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treated with respect.
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They seem to have a democratic system in place.
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Most importantly, they value life.
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On the other hand, you have negan and his group,
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you can consider them to be the totalitarian totalitarian state.
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Yeah, negan controls everything while rick and his group oftentimes
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have to go to get to the majority approval to
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make decisions like a bureaucracy.
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Mm hmm.
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This brings up the topic of conversation In this state
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of the world is a totalitarian state better off than
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a bureaucratic one.
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When looking back in history, almost all the successful empires
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have been totalitarian Rome Mongols, chinese dynasties, Japanese dynasties, the
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caliphates. It brings up the question is negan doing the
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right thing.
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Are authoritarian rules.
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The best way to rebuild hip and woo of Cambridge.
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University press writes at the policy output stage, The centralization
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of decision making powers involves less institutional friction and reduces
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the cost of policy change, which implies that one decision
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makers initiate change.
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The policy changes actually radical and more forceful and of
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course quicker, I think negan as this totalitarian ruler is
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an important piece to show.
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I think it gives a view or another perspective in
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this world.
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They are living in both sides want to create something
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however, they have different ways of doing it rick doing
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in a bureaucratic way where everyone might have a say
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and Megan doing it in his authoritative way where he's
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making decisions and he's making decisions probably a lot quicker
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than as of rick where he is a bunch of
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hoops to jump through.
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When looking back in history, we see that most, the
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most successful empires had systems set up like negan and
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the saviors, alec boy bowling lob from the online blog
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of Den of geek's made a very interesting comparison to
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negan and the Mongolian empire.
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He states negan and the saviors belong in the latter
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character category.
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Much like Genghis khan and the Mongols once did.
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Megan is smart enough to understand that violence equals power
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in this new world.
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He's also strong enough two be effective in executing this
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violence to show his power.
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Mhm personally, I'd also like to add that the Mongols
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also use subsequent communities to fuel their vast empire.
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They wanted to the motto, submit or die and the
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idea that under like the protection of us, you will
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be safe, negan and the saviors almost replicate this.
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But of course on a much much smaller scale to
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go into even more depth, there's a lot of characteristics
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of Genghis khan that relate to negan, they both killed
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many. However, they both to look to unite on the
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violence of course when looking at the, to an argument
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argument could be made that they were both positive figures
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within their own world.
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Stefano Cobb Rd Carboni of the met rights, yet the
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legacy of Genghis Khan, his sons and grandsons is also
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one of cultural development, artistic achievement courtly a way of
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life. An entire continent united under the so called pax
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Mongolia or the Mongolian piece National Geographic describes the past
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Mongolia as a period of peace within Eurasia where trade,
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religion, technology and culture prospered and spread.
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Negan was also looking to unite, protect and save and
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build. However, he was stopped short because of his violent
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tactics and unfair lifestyle, which could be blamed on his
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past life and experiences during the early stages of the
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apocalypse. I think an important takeaway would have been the
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what if what if Megan wasn't stopped?
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Could he have prospered the way he is?
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And if you look here, you know, this is the
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pact Mongolia of course, a much much larger scale than
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what the walking dead is.
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But they both have the same idea of protection and
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initiating unity between the two to spread and to unite
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as one.
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However, both failed because of decentralization and incompetent ruler.
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In addition, I'd like to just add my sources.
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Mhm. Just to visualize them.
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Thank you.
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And this is the analysis of Megan smith