Cult, Microsoft

I think it’s quite obvious Bill Gates is, beneath whatever veneer, more or less insane. That’s not being flippant or unfair. He is head or at least considered head of a company called Microsoft - we don’t need to get too anal about whatever the official state of play is with his current status in the company, and  I’m not that interested to find out. Whatever his exact status, we’ll say he’s the spiritual head of the organisation. Now let’s have a look at some people within that organisation, and see if there are any signs of disturbing influences having leaked themselves in their direction.

Holy crap! It’s very hard to believe but this, with the obvious exception of a few added little snippets, is apparently genuine footage, not parody. As a YouTube comment puts it: “Not a cult. Definitely not acting like people in a cult.” 

And just a reminder that this stuff is the offshoot in Gates of someone  at the very heart of things like climate change agenda, cultural and gender identity stuff and some other much loved issues. 

I am still very open to this above being a piss-take, but it seems for now it really is real. But maybe I am being unfair about all this. It might be worth for example next time you meet a stranger, introduce yourself by saying, for example: “Hi, my name is David. I am a Caucasian male with subtle but perhaps misleading hints of Asiatic bloodlines. I am medium tall with black hair, and am wearing a blue t-shirt and red trousers. I go by he and him, but I will not be offended if you choose to address me more fluidly.” Then smile enthusiastically with an extraordinarily open and unthreatening expression. You will have made a new friend, possibly even for life.

To add something else that just came to mind: in literature obviously the two most famous dystopias are Huxley’s Brave New World published in 1932, and Orwell’s 1984. from 1949. One social-literary question that comes up is which of these warning visions was broadly turning out to be more prescient. Not to over-simplify, but while it’s a big mixture of the two, overall it’s looking like Brave New World for the compliant, and on the way there 1984 for the uncompliant. The boundaries are far from clear though. It’s an overall composite of “Fear, fear, fear!” and “Here’s something pleasurable to alleviate your fears. Ahh, you’re safe with us.” The above Microsoft footage with its utterly inane ‘happiness’ is essentially right out of the Brave New World vision, although in ways maybe even more pathetic than Huxley envisaged.

Obviously though there is also a hell of alot of resistance to this toxic idiocy. That was the point of such books - not to win some kind of “I told you so” battle after everything has gone under, but to raise awareness about where things could go if unchecked.