07-28-2010, 08:02 AM
For Gollin it's not about the facts or the issues, it's about self-promotion. He has a boring, dead-end job that doesn't even pay as much as his wife's. He decided to reinvent himself as an "expert" in something he doesn't know anything more about than the average person who read one of Bear's books. He is a fraud and a charlatan.
When you ask him about facts or issues, he can't respond intelligently, because he hasn't troubled himself with even a perfunctory analysis. He gets his "facts" in the hallways at meetings or off internet discussion boards. He plants false stories with gullible news sources and then cites the very same stories as "proof" of his lies.
So don't expect anything more from him than self-serving self-promotion and self-aggrandizing bullshit. Not just because that is all he is capable of, but because that is his only reason for involvement in the first place. He doesn't care who is injured by his lies, he only cares about himself.
As Plato said, "Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns." We already have seen what happens to hateful bastards like Janko and Israel. I would expect something similar to be cruising down the pike toward Gollin.
When you ask him about facts or issues, he can't respond intelligently, because he hasn't troubled himself with even a perfunctory analysis. He gets his "facts" in the hallways at meetings or off internet discussion boards. He plants false stories with gullible news sources and then cites the very same stories as "proof" of his lies.
So don't expect anything more from him than self-serving self-promotion and self-aggrandizing bullshit. Not just because that is all he is capable of, but because that is his only reason for involvement in the first place. He doesn't care who is injured by his lies, he only cares about himself.
As Plato said, "Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns." We already have seen what happens to hateful bastards like Janko and Israel. I would expect something similar to be cruising down the pike toward Gollin.