Comic book villainy quickly dissolves into nuanced realism when you distribute the elements of the "conspiracy" over the org chart. Then you end up with a lot o

Comic book villainy quickly dissolves into nuanced realism when you distribute the elements of the "conspiracy" over the org chart. Then you end up with a lot of people who wanted to believe and mutually reassure each other that everything was fine, resulting in collective blindness to the evil they were doing.