Prince Among Men

That Prince among men, the producer of bland uninspiring pap, Pretentious Prince thinks that living in a theocracy might be a spiffing idea.

Sometimes he seems a little too fond of boundaries. “It’s fun being in Islamic countries, to know there’s only one religion. There’s order. You wear a burqa. There’s no choice. People are happy with that.” But what about women who are unhappy about having to wearing burqas? “There are people who are unhappy with everything,” he says shruggingly. “There’s a dark side to everything.”

Yeah, there’s a dark side, like oh, women being treated as second class citizens, not being allowed to drive, or their word being half the value of that of a man. Or people being stoned to death for adultery, I bet that’s fun, or what about homosexuals being hanged from cranes or women executed for being raped? Oh, yes, what fun it is. Jolly japes all round, what?

I always considered this shallow self-obsessed little man to be a pompous poltroon, now I am convinced of it. And, no I have never bought the tedious warbling he passes off as music and never shall.