Walter White VS Rubinshtein -- The Ethics of Empire Building and Kingdom Directory
- Mr. Tomasio Rubinshtein
- Aug 16, 2023
- 4 min read
Updated: 2 days ago
Kingdom Directory
Stupid intelligent would be someone who is super intelligent yet is misusing it. -- Mr. Nathan Lasher
Introduction
I have realized a fundamental truth: The more desires I have, the more miserable I become. Therefore, by minimizing desire, the path to satisfaction becomes accessible.
I know how hard it is to be a good man in a twisted world. Yet, through Philosocom, I seek to be exactly that. To understand my path, I must contrast it with the path of a man who started like me, but finished as a monster: Walter White.
The Rise of the Anti-Self
Walter White, known by his alias "Heisenberg," is the iconic protagonist of Breaking Bad. He began as an unsatisfied chemistry teacher, undermined by the world, working two jobs to survive.
But after a cancer diagnosis, the teacher died, and the Ideal Self took over. Heisenberg was everything Walter wasn't: Relevant. Powerful. Feared. He seized the potential within him to dominate the criminal underworld.
However, the foundation of his empire was rotten.
The Pathology of the Liar
It was impossible to trust Heisenberg because he was a Pathological Liar. He manipulated everyone—his wife, his son, his partner Jesse Pinkman. Jesse was nothing more than a pawn to him, treated like garbage whenever it suited the empire.
Psychological Safety is the currency of leadership. When you lie constantly, you bankrupt that currency. You cannot be credible when your entire existence is a fabrication. Mr. White tried desperately to separate the "Family Man" from the "Drug Lord," but the human soul cannot sustain such a split.
The Fatal Flaw: Hubris and Stupidity
We often regard Heisenberg as a genius. Yet, He was dumber than we think.
His downfall wasn't caused by a mastermind rival; it was caused by his own carelessness. A single book. Leaves of Grass. Left on a toilet tank with a handwritten dedication: "To W.W."
His brother-in-law, Hank, found it. That tiny, preventable mishap unraveled everything.
If he weren't careless, Hank would be alive.
If he weren't arrogant, his successors wouldn't have betrayed him.
Heisenberg claimed to be a genius, but a true genius does not leave breadcrumbs for his enemies out of vanity.
The Ultimate Lie: "I Did It For My Family"
For years, Walter claimed, "I did it for my family." In the finale, he finally admitted the terrifying truth to his wife, Skyler: "I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it."
He didn't care about his family. He cared about his Ego. He wanted a power trip before he died. He wanted to compensate for feeling small.
The result? His son, whom he supposedly did it all for, refused the money and told him to "Just die." Heisenberg achieved relevance at the cost of his humanity. He died alone, hated by everyone he claimed to love.
The Rubinshteinic Counter-Narrative
I am not fond of being compared to Heisenberg, though we share the trait of being "misunderstood geniuses."
His Empire: Built on Addiction. It provided a product (Meth) that destroyed lives, fed on weakness, and created misery. It was a megalomaniac fantasy.
My Empire: Built on Value. My Article Empire provides insight, wisdom, and ethics. It is built to help lives, not to ruin them.
I am the Moral Disciplinarian of myself. I know what I am capable of. I have the intellect to be a villain. I have the power to oppress. However, I refuse.
The Article Baron vs. The Drug Baron
I am Rubinshtein—the Altruistic Heisenberg.
He murdered his successors; I allow mine to be themselves.
He fed on weakness; I feed on potential.
He died creating chaos; I live creating an empire of good.
In this battle of personalities, mine is the morally superior one. Not because I am a saint, but because I refuse to be purely egoistic. I refuse to be careless about human suffering.
I learn from his mistakes. I keep my ethics pure. I supply you with insight, not emotion-shifting chemicals.
Why would people profit by feeding on others' weaknesses? I do not understand it. And perhaps, my inability to understand that cruelty is the greatest proof that I am nothing like him.
Because all I want to do, in the end, is to rectify the world through my article empire, the pocket dimension, the kingdom, which I have created.
I seek no rewards. Being a good leader is enough for me.
Thanks for reading.
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