Surviving Don Rodrigo

Society

– Source: Macworld.

The contrast between the two characters is striking. Tim Cook was born into a working-class family of the Deep South and rose to lead the world’s most important technology company through his own hard work and talent. He is openly gay and proud of it, as well as a defender of the rights of minorities.

Donald Trump is a spoiled rich kid who managed to fail in all his business ventures. He is a convicted rapist and a close friend of pedophiles. He likes to act like a boss, but he is actually just a cowardly chick.

Seeing Tim Cook forced to bow down before this petty Don Rodrigo is truly heartbreaking.1

Still, Intel fared much worse, being forced to hand 10% of its shares to these new henchmen in suits and ties.

The only crumb of solace is that, at the end of the story, the plague will strike, and Don Rodrigo and his henchmen will get what they deserve.

  1. Don Rodrigo is the main antagonist of Alessandro Manzoni’s novel I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed). He is a petty lord who uses his social status and influence to prevent the marriage of the protagonists, Renzo and Lucia, out of pride and a desire to prove his power. Though a powerful figure in the novel’s setting of 17th-century Italy, Don Rodrigo is depicted as a morally weak and mediocre character, embodying the corruption and abuse of power prevalent at the time. For English readers, the figure that most closely mirrors Don Rodrigo is Judge Pyncheon in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables, a corrupt authority figure, feared in his community yet ultimately pathetic and doomed. ↩︎