Let’s say we have a spectrum of good vs. evil.
<—Evil ———————-Good—->
Obviously, life is much messier than that but we’re just looking for a simpler model of the world right now.
(I know some people think we live in a meaningless universe where good and evil don’t exist. But I don’t find that useful as it doesn’t help us navigate this world. Besides even people that state such beliefs in meaninglessness don’t actually live by them.)
Regardless of metaphysical beliefs or lack of them, I think we can all agree that people can engage in things that are either good or bad. Of course, this is a judgement call. And with that there are lots of shades of grey, time scales, differing values and all kinds of things to think about. But once again we’re keeping it simple. Thus:
- Hurting babies = evil
- Protecting babies = good
Do you agree with that? Good! We’ll start just there.
With this spectrum we can then think about a particular person. Let’s take Bill Gates.
I don’t want to talk about Bill Gates. But I have to talk about Bill Gates. With what is going on in the world he is one of the most important people alive. Thus, it seems worth investigating his motives and actions.
Four Possible Bill Gates
On this spectrum Gates could exist in different spots according to different theories about who he actually is at heart. Good and evil is too simple, but we can extend that a bit further using four buckets for simplification purposes.
Saintly Philanthropist – On the far right we see someone that is a huge benefactor for the world, protecting millions of babies, potentially the whole planet. He is doing his best to help humanity thrive and accomplishing great things.
Normal Person with Virtues & Flaws – On the middle right we’d see obvious care for babies as any normal human would. Striving to protect them through the use of resources, time, and effort would then fit here too. But as all humans are flawed, there is potential for just being wrong about ways of accomplishing that here. In other words, you could be trying to help someone and end up hurting them.
Ruthless Power Hungry Sociopath – On the middle left we’d see not caring about hurting babies. It could simply be a by-product or collateral damage, from actions aimed at things such as gaining money, power and control of the world. Maybe you wouldn’t directly harm a baby…but if other people do so, or if it’s distant, that is okay. Means to an end.
Satanist/Pedophile/Eugenicist – Far on the left side we’d see hurting and killing babies, even getting sadistic pleasure out of it. Enjoyment from being evil. (Note, that I lumped these three things together for simplicity’s sake when they could certainly be separate. There’s also different types of Satanists, some who do seem to be truly evil, while others enjoy the religion mockingly when they’re really atheist. To the latter I apologize for lumping you in with the others. Again, doing this all for simplification purposes.)
Where do I think that Bill Gates lies? I’m not sure except to say that, in my opinion, it is not the far right. He’s not a saint. I’ve seen enough evidence to say that at the very least he’s on the middle right, and some evidence to suggest it’s worse than that.
But I also cannot justifiably jump both feet into any of these buckets as I’ve seen others do. I don’t know enough…yet. Buckle up this is the first in a series about Bill Gates so we can explore this issue in depth! If you thought my WHO reporting was great, that was just the appetizer.
Why He’s Not a Saint in My Book
Gates has publicly said he wants to vaccinate every single person. His recent GatesNotes said, “The goal is to pick the one or two best vaccine constructs and vaccinate the entire world.”
I do not want that. Once again, I am totally fine with people getting the vaccine if they choose. I hope this new vaccine does work and is extremely low in side effects. But I’m very worried it won’t be.
I say, to each their own. But that’s how I want it to be. I want the CHOICE to engage in this rushed, likely a brand new never-before-used RNA vaccine which “essentially turns your body into its own vaccine manufacturing unit.”
It certainly seems that Gates would deny me that choice. After all I am part of “the entire world.” In addition, he is heavily funding organizations that say that “vaccine hesitancy” is one of the top global threats.
Therefore…that makes him my enemy, at least a little bit not good in my book. That knocks him out of the saint category in my mind.
Still, it is possible he believes in vaccines so completely that he wants to do this for the good of everyone. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt at this point that he is just blinded in the matter. Many people definitely are!
Scott Adams A Priori Dismissal of Gates as Evil
Michael, whose been following my series here, sent me this video.
Let me start off by saying that I’m a fan of Scott Adams. I always liked Dilbert. I’ve read one of Adam’s books, listened to interviews with him, etc. I think he has some smart and great ideas. But this is not one of them…
His is an interesting line of reasoning. It basically goes like this. Because Santa Claus, Jonah in the whale, professional wrestling, and Big Foot are all fake, therefore Bill Gates can’t be evil.
At least he honestly lays it out, whereas many people think the same way but with it just being amorphous thoughts they’ve never articulated. I commend him for even addressing the issue.
I do get the impulse to deny the possibility of Gates being anything besides good. Because of the consensus worldview it couldn’t possibly make sense. It really only does so if you put together some of the other puzzle pieces first. (That conspiracies have been found to be true over and over again, that Big Pharma operates as organized crime, that media is controlled to at least some degree, etc.)
But it is intellectually dishonest. Adams is telling you that he made up his mind before looking at any data!
Then when he looks at the data oh-so-briefly, he finds a few things that support his ideas, which then lets him think case closed. If you make up your mind first, all you’re going to do is confirm your bias. You’ll find the things that support you and dismiss anything that doesn’t.
Let me put it this way.
Cast your mind back twenty years ago. Someone tells you that Bill Cosby is a serial rapist. By Adam’s line of reasoning, doesn’t it make sense to dismiss this outright? Don’t forget that Bill not only had popular shows and commercials but supported charities and the community. (Can’t think about that without remembering Dave Chapelle’s amazing callback joke, “he rapes but he saves.”)
No one would possibly believe that the kid show host and philanthropist Jimmy Savile was Britain’s most prolific pedophile! Any accusations could be summarily dismissed because BIGFOOT! In fact, allegations were brought up many times…and they all were dismissed until after his death.
There’s no way the Catholic priest could be touching kids. He’s a man of god!
So I think Adams a priori argument is extremely hollow.
In short, DO NOT MAKE UP YOUR MIND FIRST.
He then gives a few things to back up his opinion. This part is laughable though because of Adams demonstration of lack of knowledge…but also of being guilty of the same things he states are the problem!
Mind Reading
He reads some of what RFK Jr. said, that “Gates believes good health comes out of a syringe.”
But then Adam goes on to do mind reading that Gates doesn’t believe that.
We see from Gates Notes again, “Short of a miracle treatment, which we can’t count on, the only way to return the world to where it was before COVID-19 showed up is a highly effective vaccine that prevents the disease.” (emphasis added)
That looks to me to be saying that a vaccine is necessary for health. Am I reading that wrong?
In his popular Ted Talk, Gates said, “my full-time work at the foundation is mostly about vaccines and seeds” which gives us a clue.
We can look at where the Gates Foundation spends its money (2018 Annual Report). What is most important for health? Adams makes a big deal about sanitation because of the toilets covered in the Netflix special (see below). How much is spent here as compared to nutrition or vaccines? If we use money spent as a proxy for importance to health, we can see what Gates thinks!
Guilt by Association
Adams brings up the case of Bill Gates relations to Jeffrey Epstein, who as you famously know #didnotkillhimself.
He does make some valid points. I do see far too much of this in the “conspiracy” world. Famous people meet lots of famous people. There are connections between these people and the many organizations they run. So just because two people take a picture together doesn’t mean they’re in cahoots.
As an example, Adams mentions how he had a serial pedophile in his home, but he didn’t know it at the time!
The only problem with that argument is that Gates STARTED his relationship with Epstein AFTER his arrest for soliciting underage girls. Other people at the Foundation thought this was a bad idea, especially given the focus of the Foundation on women empowerment!
Associations are certainly not definitive proof. But neither should they be dismissed outright. They should be looked into. In RICO cases connections are in fact a large part of how criminal organizations are brought down.
More on the Gates and Epstein connections in a later article. I’ve looked at it a little bit thus far and I honestly don’t know if there’s anything here. But there might be.
Misquotes or Out of Context
Quotes are another thing that can easily be misleading. One big thing is to just outright misquote someone. Another is to edit the quote without context to make it look bad. The latter bit happens a lot!
Back to the Ted Talk, Bill says, “The world today has 6.8 billion people. That’s headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by, perhaps, 10% or 15%. But there, we see an increase of about 1.3.”
Many see this as PROOF that Gates wants to kill people with vaccines. But it is not. He’s not talking about people so much as population growth. And it is well-established that as people become healthier and better off economically birth rates go down.
He says that something in the equation must go to zero in order for CO2 to go to zero. One of his factors is population.
Is this him being very open about his eugenicist plans? You be the judge, but personally I find this to be extremely weak evidence.
One Sided Arguments
Adams mentions being sent a video online that talks about Gates evil plans. And he rightly says that viewing something one-sided is easy to convince you of such. I agree with that too. We shouldn’t view one thing and automatically believe it. We should seek out both sides.
Yet, then he goes on to point out a Netflix special, Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates which came out in September 2019.
Since Adam has previously made up his mind that Gates must be good this series is automatically assumed to be true and accurate while the Youtube video was inaccurate. (As if a one-sided documentary or propaganda isn’t possible on Netflix.)
I watched all three episodes so to clearly see this side of the argument. It is 98% positive towards Bill. It paints him as a very smart individual (and I am not doubting that at all). It paints him as a man aiming to do great things in the world. It even paints him as a victim at times because of things such as the USA/China trade war.
That 2% other side is just enough to make many people think it’s a balanced look at Gates. The monopoly anti-trust case against Microsoft is briefly mentioned with Gates lessons learned from his younger naïve self.
Above all, there was one thing that really stood out to me in these videos.
Bill Gates is a Technocrat
Do you believe in Technocracy?
In the final episode, one criticism that is brought up is that Gates is “a technophile that thinks that technology will save everything.”
Bill responds like this, “Yeah, I’m basically guilty of that. Any problem I will look at how technical innovation can help solve that problem. It’s the one thing I know and the one thing I’m good at. And so, you know, that’s my hammer. Uh…And so lots of problems look like nails because I’ve got a hammer.”
Technocracy is defined as an ideological system of governance in which decision-makers are selected on the basis of their expertise in a given area of responsibility, particularly with regard to scientific or technical knowledge. Bill Gates, being at one time the richest man on the planet, has clearly appointed himself a leader in science, education and medicine. With his views on technology and the power he wields that makes him a technocrat.
Regarding COVID19, in his Gates Notes he wrote this:
“I see global innovation as the key to limiting the damage. This includes innovations in testing, treatments, vaccines, and policies to limit the spread while minimizing the damage to economies and well-being…It can also sound like we have all the scientific advances needed to re-open the economy, but in fact we do not.”
In other words, as a human that may possibly be infected with SARS-CoV2, Gates sees me as a nail and he has his hammer, a vaccine.
I feel like these quotes from Gates himself sums it up. Technology will save us all. Always new technology. Never mind, that technology has created almost all the problems we’re facing. Never mind that we often find technology has long-term complications that we don’t realize until much later on.
Gates believes we need new technology in vaccines. We need to give everyone a digital ID in order to solve these problems. We need to genetically engineer more food, including growing meat in a lab. 5G is needed to control and coordinate all these things. These are things Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation invests in.
Technology is the route to our future. The only thing that can save us. That is what Gates clearly believes.
Do you?
I personally want to stay human and not become part machine. This is why I can’t see him as a saint because we have different life philosophies.
I’m obviously not a luddite and saying that all technology is bad…but some of it definitely has issues! I think we as a human species would be better off slowing down a bit, cleaning up some of the messes we’ve created with technology using current technology, instead of always plowing forward.
In coming articles I’ll be exploring as best as I can the facts surrounding Bill Gates for what bucket he best seems to sit in. Based on what I’ve learned so far, I have my leanings but will wait until I learn much more before taking a stand.
Hey Logan,
Interesting articles – I think I’ve read them all since you branched off into independent journalism/research. I like your methodology and think you’re doing a good job of analyzing many different aspects of specific issues. I’m not sure about some of your sources, but by and large, you stay with mainstream media and let’s face it, they actually say a lot there if you’re paying attention, or willing to sift through the biases.
For this one, I wanted to comment that using the term bucket is already a bit of a bias, and I’d be surprised if you landed on one of the two buckets on the right. A human in a bucket doesn’t lead to many good things, at least in my own mind. Perhaps with each action, Gates is making a bed, and in the final analysis, he has to sleep in the bed that best suits him, so positive actions are bedclothes for the right two, and negative clothes for the left two. Of course, blood drinking puts a big old comforter on the last bed to the left and would override most any other deed imaginable.
Anyway, keep up the good work. Your writing has grown considerably in the last few years and it’s been fun to read and keep up with all the different interests you have.
Adam
Bucket was simply for simplification purposes. Do you have a suggestion for some other term?
Thanks for your comments.
Thank you for the article and look forward to the next one. Never had considered that Bill Gates solution is usually more technology to solve problems although from his background It makes a lot of sense. Really have a bad feeling about this vaccine.
Bill is 64 years old but could pass for being a 79 year old. He is aging rather fast. Probably not practicing a natural health life style through physical exercise and natural foods. Most likely relying too much on scientific methods, fake meats, drugs, and vaccinations for his own health. May not be around all that much longer to cause futher problems for all.
Until the US tests everyone, I will not trust anything they say. I’m not paranoid, I just realise that the Gov’t doesn’t know. Going back to work at this point is nothing short of foolish. I am retired and have always been a loner and a non conformist. What is happening at this point is why I am the way I am. Blame isn’t important at this point. Staying alive is and I am responsible for me. Viet Nam is a good example. 97 million people and 260 cases with no deaths. Plain and simple because they did the right thing. I don’t know why a person would take a chance at this point. BTW, I don’t care about Gates.
I generally try to stay away from the terms good and evil. However, anyone trying to rule my life gets put into that category by me. And since technocrats desire to do just that; I lump Gates into the evil box. I don’t buy the plandemic. I’m just not stupid enough to ignore all the numbers gaming. It’s a power play and it’s so obvious that I have lost all faith in people as they choose to think as they’re told. In a sense, those that unthinkingly buy into it are also evil as they are demanding to trade our freedoms (such as they are) for an illusionary security. They rank even lower than Gates in my opinion, because they are acting out of fear and I hate a coward more than anything else.
Logan, there’s a little bug, the numbers in the Gates report are in “thousands of U.S. dollars”. So you have to add three zeros to your calculations.
This makes the amounts they spent on “good” projects more impressive and explains why you can do a special on it. This blows peoples minds. And it is an awesome contribution. On the other hand it also makes the discrepancy exponentially greater. So big, we can no longer “grasp” what you could do with these amounts.
So it even emphasizes the points you’re making.
Forgot to mention: I watched the Scott Adams part about BG. And after the leadup of his clear observations was quite shocked when he didn’t see the obvious Disturbing Bill, but Santa Bill in his sled instead.
Thanks for catching that. I’ll be updating the images right now. You’re right it makes the impact of the figures way bigger.
As we mature we learn that few people are eligible for the “Saint Box” or the “Evil Box.” You suggest four possibilities for labeling Bill Gates, and I suspect doing so helps us think of how to look at Gates. Boxes help us think and label, but the reality about people is usually a blurry continuum.
It’s faddish to see Gates as all evil these days (I think), but let’s defend him for a moment.
• Gates is community-minded and may want vaccination for everyone so they don’t have to endure the pain of illness and pandemics such as Covid-19. The pain of this one may be nothing compared to viruses that may come our way in the future. (Of course, no one knows what future viruses will be like.)
• Gates may want vaccination for everyone partly to help people, as said above, and partly because he stands to make money on companies developing vaccines.
• The other options of psychopath and pure evil? I don’t see Gates in either camp.
Vaccination is successful for some illness prevention, and less so for other diseases. Even when vaccination is successful, it may come with “collateral damage,” although exactly how much is often unclear. Both the pro and the con groups are prone to exaggeration or omission of important facts, once they’ve made up their minds. Instead of weighing the facts, we make our decisions based on what
some “support” group thinks, whether this group is a pharmaceutical company, club, or a group of family, friends, or acquaintances.
Our motivations are seldom pure—they are usually alloys or mixtures. I may not agree with Gates’ solution to future viruses and pandemics, but I don’t have to see him as evil.
One way of judging others is to look at how self-centered they are. Moral development is sometimes seen in terms of stages, stages that show increased concern for larger groups as the person matures morally (see Kohlberg). Lowest stage is “I-me-my” and my family, my club, my peers, and my party, my nation would be steps towards “my world community.” Many adults don’t hit the later stage(s). Once again, Gates doesn’t even come close to “evil” if we judge with any reasonable maturity. My judging of Gates should be done with the same attitude by which I would want to be judged, or how I would like someone to judge my family. It doesn’t mean I have to agree with them, but I certainly don’t have to see them as evil.
Logan, thanks for the article. I learn from and enjoy your research and opinions.
The buckets were for simplification purposes. I thought I made that clear. And with that there’s obviously some spectrum between them. That’s the whole point of this in that there is a lot of middle ground between good and evil which is how most people want to see it.
Please note that sociopath and psychopath are not quite the same things. I purposefully chose to use sociopath.
https://www.diffen.com/difference/Psychopath_vs_Sociopath
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Interesting read Logan! Thank you for all the time and dedication you put into your research and backing it up by video and data. I am a bit confused as to WHY, yes Why you are spending time to decide “Where’s Bill” when he has already been found “GUILTY AS CHARGED”! (Not by me, it’s not my job to Judge, I leave that to the Judges that have been put in place by our government) How so? Well, where would I begin? Oh yeah… He is directly involved and vested financially in a multitude of vaccine (and Drug) companies which have been “Found Guilty” by the Federal Courts as directly causing everything from “mental retardation to DEATH” and forced to pay out 100’s of Millions in these suits. Again, Bill Gates (by association to these Drug & Vaccine Companies) is a “Convicted Felon” – You don’t Pay Millions when your Innocent!
These two videos spell it out quite clearly and as they say… Let the record show:
1. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Environmental Attorney & Nephew Of President John F. Kennedy)
MY FIGHT AGAINST MANDATORY VACCINATIONS, BIG PHARMA, AND DR. FAUCI (& Bill Gates)
https://londonreal.tv/robert-f-kennedy-jr-my-fight-against-mandatory-vaccinations-big-pharma-and-dr-fauci/
2. Coronavirus: Watch Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Ex-employee Tell All (NOTE: Also incorporates Bill Gates)
https://kfyi.iheart.com/featured/the-conservative-circus-with-james-t-harris/content/2020-05-06-coronavirus-watch-dr-anthony-faucis-ex-employee-tell-all/?fbclid=IwAR29tKMdUlVbCeZRfVhSbRJ9QpYfIQGifilmP-UrT6bPvNFfKCJFky5hXdQ
Guilt by association as you’re stating is fortunately not how our legal system works, and I’m saying that recognizing the many problems it has and the crimes of pharmaceutical companies. Are you suggesting that everyone who has shares in a pharmaceutical company is a “convicted felon”?