Mencius Moldbugman

That book is Xi Jinping’s The Governance of China. And Mark just happened to leave it on his desk when Lu Wei came to visit and some photographers were handily nearby. I couldn’t make this up.

Seriously. How low can Mark Zuckerberg go? Who did he think he was kidding by “accidentally” leaving a copy of Xi Jinping’s book on his desk in a sycophantic attempt to curry favour with the man himself? I ask again: How low can Mark go?

At least Mark hasn’t done anything really reprehensible yet – like using his own family…

Mark has done some naive things in the last few years during his failed attempts to ingratiate his webshite with the ruling class of China, but few have displayed such a shocking level of ignorance as this one. It’s laughable that his own PR team even let him get away with this.

There are so many things wrong with this. He makes a mockery of those miserable unfortunates who have no choice but to live everyday in smog clouds of life-shortening pollution with no way out. By jogging through a smog-covered Tiananmen Square, Mark sneers at all those people.

Mark doesn’t care about them. He just wants to show the world that he doesn’t believe those scary scientific PM readings that demonstrate the environmental degradation of Beijing’s air quality.

Unlike those ridiculous Beijingers who cannot even step outside without wearing a facemask, let alone go for an early morning jog, Mark will be safely on a plane back to California and breathing in his privileged billionaire’s oxygen within no time.

Not only did Mark Zuckerberg show his utter contempt towards the lives of people who suffer from China’s industrial pollution, but he also chose to boast about it on Facebook whilst still in Beijing – a website that is blocked in China.

In order to circumvent China’s firewall he must have used an illegal VPN to upload the photograph and accompanying comment. Such an action would get an ordinary Chinese citizen into trouble, but again Mark need not worry about such repercussions back in his Silicon Valley condo.

Who cares about the plight of China’s health as long as they can access Mark’s social media site?

7. His entire marriage. ***Feminist trigger warning!!!***

Over the course of these tweets, we have seen the depths that Zuckerberg will lower himself to in order to get his precious FB unblocked in China. It’s sickening, it’s sycophantic, it’s soulless. It also demonstrates a total lack of respect for oneself.

However, I think Suckerberg’s underlying psychological issues run much deeper than a commercial wish to promote his business. It’s my belief that the awkward and autistic billionaire has a burning and unfulfilled need to be loved.

Indulge me in a quick thought experiment. How did Mark and Priscilla Zuckerberg get together?

The first part is easy. I think I can hazard a fairly accurate guess as to why Priscilla decided to marry awkward, socially autistic, weedy, man-boobed billionaire Mark Zuckerberg. So why did Mark marry Priscilla?

There’s no denying that there’s a neediness & a desire for attention in everything Zuckerberg does. Such a deep psychological craving for the respect of other people is common to high-IQ nerds who feel during their formative teen years that the unfair world is against them.

Bigger guys get the girls, but if I get rich then I can get girls too. As a theory it certainly explains his drive to create a monumentally successful (except in China – hah!) billion dollar business, esp a social media business that further focuses the attention onto its founder

I believe there is a strong possibility that Suckerberg has a very deep level of insecurity that his billions have not managed to cancel out.

Before someone chooses to comment that I’m wrong to judge Priscilla solely on her looks, I’m sure she has a “lovely personality” blah blah. She’s also a woman with a “lovely personality” who married an equally ugly man just for his money. (This isn’t the fucking Guardian.)

However, given everything we have seen about Mark Zuckerberg and his pitiful grovelling before the Chinese government, how can anybody be sure that he didn’t just marry a Chinese wife so that he could present himself even more as a “friend of China”?

No. I must be wrong. There is no way in this world that a Chinese woman would marry the billionaire head of a global media empire just for his money, and that the billionaire head of a global media empire would marry a Chinese woman just to expand his business interests in China.