[BGthaOG]

A though on the author's words:

> Megalothymia is “the desire to be recognized as superior to other people”, and “can be manifest both in the tyrant who invades and enslaves a neighboring people so that they will recognize his authority, as well as in the concert pianist who wants to be recognized as the foremost interpreter of Beethoven”; successful liberal democracies channel this desire into fields like entrepreneurship or competition, including electoral politics.

Trump can be described as someone who has megalothymia, wielding his money and more recently politics to assert his perception of himself as 'superior'. This, along with what I opine is blindness of the heart, leveraging this megalothymia as a tool to worship his ego.

These recent days, a number of tech companies, of course made up of people, flexed back when they felt their reasoning outweighed the risks of such a decision. Is this tyranny from these powerful people (Companies et al.)? And thus we are seeing folks (Trump & Companies et al.) taste each others tyranny, taking turns? Or are companies et al. simply claiming a piece of that same echelon Trump claims for himself, as an act of fighting back against a tyrant? Or some third or fourth option... etc.