Like all great mythmakers, he had tried to fashion reality out of his dream, and in the end, like Humbert, he had managed to destroy both reality and his dream. Added to the crimes, to the murders and tortures, we would now face this last indignity—the murder of our dreams. Yet he had done this with our full compliance, our complete assent and complicity.
Why is this different from someone like elon musk? The murders/tortures? Public opinion of what success means? The ends don't justify the means, and musk stops short of nonconsensual work?
What about obama?