Gates leaving Microsoft to become full-time funder of, at best, useless, and, at worst, ruinous liberal projects

Gintas writes:

I saw in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer this morning an interview with Bill Gates of Microsoft, whose last day on the job is today. He’s becoming a “philanthropist.”

Q: As a philanthropist, are you going to feel more free to be open about your political views?

Gates: I will speak out on the issues that the foundation is deeply engaged in.

Ugh. Then I read Steve Sailer today:

The Most Dangerous Woman in America is

… Melinda Gates, one-time boss of Microsoft Bob. To polish his public image, her monopolist husband Bill, a notorious IQ elitist in his hiring practices, has given her tens of billions with which to play Politically Correct Social Engineerette.

This fits in with the discussion on the rich. The purpose of our economy seems to be to enable impassioned destroyers of the West to do their thing. I fear only a total and complete economic catastrophe shall wipe the land clean of these parasites.

Stewart W. writes:

This story ties in with your comments in the earlier entry about Section 8 housing. Although liberal appetites are nearly infinite, the damage they inflict is limited by the resources they can access. When you see an interview like this one, you can see the monstrous levels to which they will go when they are under no restrictions.

I recently started watching the HBO “John Adams” miniseries. In the first episode, you see someone tarred and feathered. If the fellow survived, he was a broken man. A disturbing image, but I find that it now pops into my head frequently when I think about the sort of social engineers who are wreaking destruction on our society.

The problems we perceive in life may not be able to be fixed by human means, and all such attempts may demonstrably and inevitably cause more harm than good, but we MUST TRY. No matter the consequences, at least WE TRIED.

SEE LORD, HOW GOOD WE ARE! NOTICE OUR GOODNESS, OH LORD!

It seems to me that God is always talking about “deeds,” never “intentions.” But these dangerous fools never learn, and keep a it. Give them 10 billion dollars, and they try really hard.

Steve D. writes:

You don’t seem to understand: putting Bill Gates in charge of liberalism could be the best thing that ever happened for us.

Under Gates’s leadership, everything the libs try to do will take three times longer than promised, cost five times as much, and won’t work. No, wait … that’s the way it is now and nobody seems to care.

Never mind.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at June 24, 2008 07:05 PM | Send