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Comment by aa-jv

He is literally a manifestation of the phenomenon described in this book:

https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.469826

"The Authoritarian Personality"

tl;dr - the roots of the authoritarian personality grow fertile in the desire to be free of 'the filth of others'. Altman seems like he'd go crazy if he didn't keep his machine spectacularly clean ..

parent aa-jv 8 months ago

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