Chapter 305: The Man Dum
Doom, the Doctor of Doom, or Doom, the Mage of Doom, could be called Doom the Doom in the future. This is a very smart guy and a daring guy. He is thick-skinned and extremely narcissistic. This is known from the way he names the countries he controls.
Place names in various places always like to have a dom as a prestamp. He put a deep mark on Latvia himself. But he is such a narcissistic person, but he has his own persistence, humility and pride.
Doom gave his name to various attractions in the country, as if he had created the landscapes that had been formed over millions of years (e.g. Doumlin, Doom Valley). But he gave the university he really created by himself something else: the Latvian University of Sciences.
Science is science, and it doesn't belong to anyone by nature. We have only occasionally found some directions and laws of water flow in the vast Hanhai, which is not worth mentioning compared to the entire Hanhai. Be humble in front of science, never think you already know everything you need to know about the world, and always be a student on the road. Only then will you be able to benefit immensely on the path of science - from the manifesto of the Latvian University of Sciences, which was written by Doom.
Because of Doom's reverence for science, his surprising desire to explore, and his own brilliant scientist. Although the Latvian University of Sciences has only been established for 20 years, it is already a first-class school. Although international university rankings do not include Latvia (because of political connections).
But the last time Li Jie and Dr. Banner visited Latvia, Dr. Banner visited the University of Science. He expressed high praise for the level of hardware and software of the university: "It is not inferior to New York University or the University of California, Berkeley. ”
Before Dom came to power, Latvia was a small, poor country with no technology industry, and the country was largely dependent on agriculture. Science and technology and culture are extremely underdeveloped. Doom came to power, albeit in a dictatorial manner (Dr. Banner: it's still a bit brutal), but he ruled the country. However, the national strength has increased.
At the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union, Latvia's per capita annual disposable income had risen from $300 to more than $38,000 today, almost 20 years after Dom was in power. The living income of residents has increased more than 100 times.
The per capita annual intake of meat, dairy products and other materials has also increased from 3.75 kg and 13 kg per year during the collapse of the Soviet Union to 115 kg of meat products and 215 kg of dairy products per capita per year (Latville has the habit of eating cheese, and the conversion ratio of cheese to raw milk is very high).
Latvia's per capita electricity generation has soared from more than 700 kWh 20 years ago to 12,000 kWh today.
Latvia under Doom was indeed not free, and he used his secret police to control the public opinion of the entire country and make all those who dared to oppose him disappear. He was a real great dictator.
But what if we look at the problem from another angle? After the collapse of the Soviet Union, no countries, including Russia, were developed countries. Everyone's quality of life is getting worse. The countries of Eastern Europe are even more miserable, with coups and civil wars continuous, and the lives of ordinary people are really not easy.
Although Latvia is said to be a dictatorship, the standard of living is rising every year. By standards, Latvia is fully part of an advanced developed country. The per capita consumption of daily necessities such as meat, milk, and electricity is among the highest in the world.
Although it is a small country, it lives a very nourishing life. However, almost all Western media outlets deliberately ignore this when evaluating Latvia.
They are not going to list these numbers to compare Latvia 20 years ago with Latvia now. They also don't care if the inhabitants of Latville like to come home from work every day and open the fridge full of cheese, sausages and butter.
I still prefer the days when I ate the last meal every day and didn't know where to find the next piece of black bread.
Of course, in the politically charged media, none of this matters. After all, political correctness is all that matters. Much of Lee's previous portrayal of Latvia was also derived from the propaganda of these media. Propaganda portrays Doom as a militaristic dictatorial war criminal, who is forcing and exploiting his own people as a heinous supervillain!
It wasn't until the start of the Superhighway project that Lee Kit and Dr. Banner went to Latvia in person, and after talking to Doom calmly for the first time, Lee Jay felt that the media could not always be trusted.
In some respects, Doom has indeed gone too far, and it is indeed very authoritarian. But in another way he is good and right. At least, if Latvia had come to power not twenty years ago when Dom came to power, but with a "democratic leader" who was preferred by the Western media.
Li Jie guessed that the average standard of living of the people of Latvia is probably not as high as that of the current Dum government. Maybe it'll fall into civil unrest?
And now Doom has become a little addicted to magic. For the status of the monarch of Latvia, Dom now wants to become the Supreme Mage!
He had already begun to want to slowly relinquish power over Latvia.
Because the more he learned about Doom, Li Jie felt that this person was actually credible. He's not a villain in the traditional sense. Or that Doom and Li Jay have a lot in common. They are people who can do whatever it takes to achieve a certain end.
It's just that Dom is much more radical than Li Jie, and at the same time more stubborn. Is Doom bad? Perhaps, his badness is not bad in the traditional sense. It is the difference in his standards of conduct that has caused a bias in value perception.
So Radum entering the Illuminati was an idea for Li Jie. But at the same time, the idea requires some risk, after all, Doom is not a particularly easy person to get along with. Others in the Illuminati said there was no problem with Dr. Banner being added directly. But Dr. Doom needed an inspection period, just like an intern.
Doom, who was practicing magic in Kamataki, was sitting upright in a meditation chair. And Li Jie was sitting opposite him, and said with a serious face: "Do you want to join a secret underground organization, and then start a secret plan to control the whole world?"