Who the Hell is Bill Gates?

Here are a few clips of Bill Gates from the 1998 Netscape antitrust lawsuit deposition involving his company Microsoft. I’d certainly recommend watching these short clips above first if you haven’t done so yet.

In relation to what we see here of Gates’ behaviour is a YouTube comment which feels pretty relevant: “This is what happens when a narcissist sociopath is called on the carpet. They disassociate and play incompetent to avoid their true self from being revealed. He’s an empty vessel, an emotional ghost.” 

I think we don’t have to be shy here in accepting Gates here appears genuinely bizarre, and pretty far removed from ‘normal’ human responses. Without having to delve too deep into the psychopathology of narcissism and such types, there is the view that in the genuine sense of narcissist personality disorder this person has at their core no longer any true self, from which they have split due generally to some intense trauma. There is now only the facade, an illusion of a coherent self. The narcissist’s greatest fear is exposure for who they are, and if under significant pressure things can really fall apart as there is no solid being underneath to fall back on. The crumbling of the edifice is I believe known as narcissistic collapse, which seems very much what we are witnessing with such footage of Gates.

 In terms of the substance of someone coming to the fore when under pressure, one could look at for example videos of Vladimir Putin facing very hostile Western interviewers and, regardless of how pure or not he may be morally, we see very strong, impressive responses. By contrast we see Gates appear to be an utterly hopeless, malfunctioning shell of a man, rocking back and forth with no thought for how disturbed and weak this appears, or in the third clip to a simple question bizarrely sitting there in silence for 30 seconds before coming up with the response, “In the sense that users select which browsers they want to use, yes.” This is how simple the question was.

The nature of the normal interview where Bill Gates appears to the public would, in terms of its psychological dynamic, be of an obsequious interviewer asking questions of Gates who is very much speaking down from his accepted authority. There is no threat to the public persona, and rather it is more likely being exalted, which is the very lifeblood of the narcissist. So there is none of the pressure necessary to reveal what may lie underneath the public performance. In the footage here though,  he was subject to serious investigation for whichever business practices, and you can see for yourself, what we see is shocking. And the idea that this man has huge say and power over things like vaccines is simply appalling, and the idea of accepting him at face value as a benevolent philanthropist is just laughable. YouTube comments from the videos such as “Looks like a serial killer” seem not unfair, or “And this is the guy people are hailing as some kind of Saint or Messiah?! Wow.” 

And to add, one of the deepest traits of the pure narcissist is a total lack of empathy. They are disassociated from such feelings to a shocking degree. Gates is someone saying he hopes vaccines will help reduce the world’s population by 10 to 15%. And in the final video below, look a minute into it how he and his wife slip into the most creepy, inappropriate smiles after Gates says, “Prepare for the next one(the next COVID wave presumably). That will get attention this time.”