Breaking Breg: The School for Moral Elitism

Just who on Earth is The Breg and why does he get to lecture others about “moral ambition”?

He’s an “adult” white Dutch man, a mediocre historian, and no obvious or notable traits of interest.
Not one.

It’s quite disarming, really, it is. There is not a single interesting thing about this person. Have you ever met anyone like that? It’s absolutely incredible. Nothing of note.

But that is precisely what makes him supremely interesting.

You see, just like Arthur Dent, famously the only human hitchhiker in the galaxy, it’s his ordinariness that makes him interesting. Indeed, this is a classic story of right place, right time. Dent is described as

incredibly ordinary and perpetually confused. Arthur is not a hero or an adventurer. He’s just a normal guy who somehow wound up in space. And he never has any idea what is going on, much to the chagrin of his traveling companions who are sick of having to explain the nuts and bolts of interstellar travel.

I could not think of a better way to describe The Breg.

He first went viral after what is apparently a carefully choreographed and planned outburst at Davos in 2019 — and followed the rest of the year with high-profile interviews and op-eds in Big…