“This place is special, we can’t ruin it,” the founder of Amazon said of our planet.
Wind-up gramophone is an entirely appropriate emblem for such asinine sci-fi maunderings. Jeff must have lost any wits he had about the same time he lost his hair. Long since. Good at moneygrubbing, though, so - like Gates - we must listen to him as expert in everything on which he cares to pronounce. Bit player in ‘Star Trek’? Yep, that’s about the right measure…
+10 @Jamie: Excellent choice of metaphor, not so much the gramophone though that too, but the sheer madness of Fitzgerald depicted in this masterful film.
Shaded though, as a masterpiece of cinema, by this one:
The psychopaths, Bezos et al, really do think they are divine beings.
I thought you’d get it!
Funny really, because first time around, Fitzcarraldo was my fave. I really must watch both again.
You can’t really go wrong with Herzog, there’s always something interesting to look at, though KK was the acme. He would be “cancelled” in 5 seconds flat these days, but can’t imagine for a second he could care less. A wild creature through and through.