Shut up, piggy.
- Staying with that first kind for a moment, history's rhymes of late have sounded a lot more like hard-core counter-gangsta rap — explicit calls for violence by the police, not against them, delivered as an exaggerated distraction from real grievances actually having little, or at most indirect, relationship to the advocated violence.
- Or, as the case may be, pure pigheaded ignorance. Interestingly enough, there hasn't been a comparable report Over Here as of yet; if there were, the period from mid-February 2020 for about a year would almost certainly, based solely upon what has been released in public to date, get much the same evaluation (which is not to limit the criticism to that period or the national government, either).
- OK, that's the first kind. Here's the second. The underlying headline is rather asking whether Adolf Schickelgrüber, Ioseb Jughashvilli, or Leopold II was responsible for the most/longest-lasting human suffering — there really isn't a "winner," and certainly not among the victims. It's not always necessary to draw the line for where narcissistic sociopathy ends/begins — especially not hiding amongst the techbros…
Perhaps irrelevant aside: It's not the "tech" but the "bros" that's the real parallel; just look at the fairly uniform character flaws among "rising magnates of new industry" of the past, whether the US (Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Morgan, Carnegie, Ford…) or elsewhere. It's almost like the ambition to be the biggest pig(s) in the sty encourages gluttony and reliance on the work of others.
- The third kind of pig is a bit more subtle. Rather than oinking, snarling, and flopping about in overt displays of fatness, they focus more on suppressing notice of their fatness. Sometimes they justify it through worship of "market forces" and "loyalty to shareholders" (usually failing to acknowledge that the largest shareholders are to be found among that third kind of pigs).
There's really only one proper conclusion: Mmmmmm, bacon — but that would require curing it first ("uncured bacon" is an oxymoron — without curing, it's just "pork belly," however tasty), and I've not found a lasting cure for any of the pigs that contributed to this platter…