Bill Gates has become somewhat of a bogeyman for a lot of people. He was always an odd duck. When he decided to make himself Mr. Vaccine, I thought that was pretty eccentric, but I thought he was just trying to make himself look better, sort of how Carneige started donating lots of money after he had acted like an extremely ruthless sociopath for most of his career.
Bill Gates says odd things. Looking into his history, and it looks like he was placed into a place of power, more than created it on his own. After all, he didn’t create MS-DOS, and his dad helped this college dropout become filthy rich. His dad is also a Planned Parenthood guy, and his mom has some allegedly odd connections, none of which I will link here, but all of which I have read over the last 6 or 7 years. There is no need to go down that rabbit hole.
Yes, he was pals with Epstein. And we know what that means. And anyone who goes down that rabbit hole can find all sorts of horrible and weird things as well.
So, Bill Gates may have some goals about population limits and depopulation. Maybe he really did think that developing vaccines and giving them to the Third World would make the world a better place. Maybe he believed that there was a way to modernize Africa and Asia enough so that migration would decline and population would top off and even decline, much like it has been doing in Asia and Europe.
What I ultimately see with Bill Gates is that he isn’t all that bright. He isn’t smart enough to engage in ruthless mastermind. And neither are most of those like Gates. We have a bunch of people ruining the country and the world not through some diabolical masterplan, but through incompetence. Have you listened to any speeches at Davos that actually sound intelligent? Has listening to Gates ever made you perk up and say, “Wow, Gates is brilliant!”
Years ago I knew some lawyers who worked on Microsoft litigation. They read lots of Bill Gates’ emails. When I asked them what they thought of Gates, they said he sounded like an idiot. He didn't come off as bright at all. They thought he just sounded dumb. And that might be the truth of it.
Instead of genius masterminds, we just have a bunch of midwits trying to control everything. Maybe there is genius somewhere behind the curtain, but I see mostly incompetence.
Let's compare this to an evil mastermind as shown in entertainment, using the Star Wars universe as an example. Senator Palpatine might be an evil Sith Lord in secret, but his quest for power is rooted in simple political activities.
He can see, unlike almost anyone, that the Republic is flawed and dysfunctional. People see being exploited by the powerful and resentment is brewing. Palpatine engineers a crisis that leads to him assuming executive power. He then organizes a false opposition to manuver himself into supreme power. He gets the various resentful factions together and gets them to rebel, thereby allowing for the creation of new armed forces. After a few years of conflict he defeats the rebellion and uses the armed forces to destroy his opposition on his own side and creates the Empire.
The Empire secures peace in the galaxy through force and streamlines the overall system. The fall of the Empire leads to chaos and crisis and increased conflict, not peace and prosperity. Sure, bad policies by the Empire helped to cause the Rebellion and building Death Stars was a waste of resources, but it was still better for most people than during the last years of the Republic or the years after the second Death Star blew up.
So an evil mastermind actually did good by most people and his removal made things worse.
So, I admit I would rather have a competent evil mastermind running the West than these pathetic folks. At least he would be doing things to make the stronger.
I would respect a Senator Palpatine, who gained control and actually dealt with the problems and decimated potential rivals. Octavian might not have engineered a fake civil war to gain supreme power, but he was willing to go further than his uncle, and Rome was far better than it was during the prior century of civil strife. Our rulers just are not evil masterminds enough to be good at anything much.
Good discussion. I feel like it isn’t so much that the people at the very top really are dumb. Smart enough not to get killed, at least. Usually they seem either lucky (Gates) or ruthless (Soros, Clintons etc). It’s more that they are smart enough and rich enough to buy the right loyal underlings that really are possibly brilliant, definitely diabolical true believers. Our current Oligarch class isn’t so much brilliant, ruthless, and efficient. They are more just kind of winging it. Causing many unintended problems that they not only don’t want to get blamed for, but also want credit for fixing. WEF is kind of a clown show. But the Trilateral Commission, which has many overlapping members, seems like a smarter set, and pretty diabolical.