09-27-2022, 09:49 PM
The two vike people mentioned as purchasers of the most expensive sound equipment that money could buy were the deposed genocidal tyrant Idi Amin, then very much alive, and Jean-Claude Duvalier, recently-deposed dynastic President of Haiti. Both were fantastically rich from looting their countries through corruption and outright theft but plenty of time with nothing to do.
If you were thinking of Otto von Hapsburg,
(1) he was anything but disgusting
(2) he could go about anywhere to hear great music live
(3) he was highly active as if he were a Kaiser
(4) there were no international arrest warrants awaiting him
If you were thinking of Otto von Hapsburg,
(1) he was anything but disgusting
(2) he could go about anywhere to hear great music live
(3) he was highly active as if he were a Kaiser
(4) there were no international arrest warrants awaiting him
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.