The man is like the socio-political version of the inadvertent financial arch-contrarian Jim Cramer, with a nearly perfect track record of not being just wrong, but somehow being the polar opposite of right.
How is it possible, really, that the modern permutation of every single catastrophic idea of the past few centuries could be contained within a single man's mind?
The man is literally liberty antimatter. Totalitarianism personified. As far as I'm aware, his every utterance is an assault on one aspect or another of every iota of human freedom wrested from the clutches of criminal rulers (redundant?) since the Magna Carta, and perhaps before.
And despite (or, for the true cynic, perhaps because of) the fact that in the last century his ilk have produced a mountain of corpses that would reach low orbit, with levels of destruction, dislocation, impoverishment and oppression on scales that defy quantification, not only do we still have to tolerate such people, but see them rise to prominence, influence and great wealth.
I find it incomprehensible to the point that at times part of my mind simply rebels, insisting that Klaus, Comrade Biden, Fidel Jr., Jacobin Jacinda, Bolshie Birx, Fasces Fauci and the rest can only be members of a cast of thousands in the largest horror show production in the history of mankind.
But sadly, the suspension of disbelief rapidly fades and reality reasserts itself, leaving me longing for a small dark room and a large bottle of scotch.
It's hard to imagine a more realistic version of a Bond Villain than Klaus. Half a century ago, my initial impression of Rand's villains in Atlas Shrugged were surreal. Today they are ubiquitous.
Wesley Mouch brought to life, sucking the life out of the rest of us.
"When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors – When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you – When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice – You may know that your society is doomed."
There is a part of my brain that can hardly accept that Herr Klaus is actually real, rather than some grotesque, cretinous evolution of Max Headroom:
https://youtu.be/cYdpOjletnc?t=49
The man is like the socio-political version of the inadvertent financial arch-contrarian Jim Cramer, with a nearly perfect track record of not being just wrong, but somehow being the polar opposite of right.
How is it possible, really, that the modern permutation of every single catastrophic idea of the past few centuries could be contained within a single man's mind?
The man is literally liberty antimatter. Totalitarianism personified. As far as I'm aware, his every utterance is an assault on one aspect or another of every iota of human freedom wrested from the clutches of criminal rulers (redundant?) since the Magna Carta, and perhaps before.
And despite (or, for the true cynic, perhaps because of) the fact that in the last century his ilk have produced a mountain of corpses that would reach low orbit, with levels of destruction, dislocation, impoverishment and oppression on scales that defy quantification, not only do we still have to tolerate such people, but see them rise to prominence, influence and great wealth.
I find it incomprehensible to the point that at times part of my mind simply rebels, insisting that Klaus, Comrade Biden, Fidel Jr., Jacobin Jacinda, Bolshie Birx, Fasces Fauci and the rest can only be members of a cast of thousands in the largest horror show production in the history of mankind.
But sadly, the suspension of disbelief rapidly fades and reality reasserts itself, leaving me longing for a small dark room and a large bottle of scotch.
It's hard to imagine a more realistic version of a Bond Villain than Klaus. Half a century ago, my initial impression of Rand's villains in Atlas Shrugged were surreal. Today they are ubiquitous.
Wesley Mouch brought to life, sucking the life out of the rest of us.
"When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors – When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you – When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice – You may know that your society is doomed."
~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
Couldn't have said it better myself.