Noble cause corruption

So I think we have to look back and see that there was some sort of good there.

Alex Gibney calls it noble cause corruption, which does happen with a lot of figures that he concentrates on, that have power, have got power.

Enron was like that.

Even Enron, which was a massive fraud, there was some noble cause corruption there, and of course Theranos with Elizabeth Holmes, and there's another documentary coming out about her as well.

That is bound to be one of the biggest of the year as well.

So it's, his career is inconceivable without, uh, the assistance of government.

I think that's true to some extent, and, and, a- a- and also, wh- when you're peddling a line, it helps the efficacy of the line if you believe it.

There is a, a phrase that the police use, which, uh, it applies to a lot of, some of the figures in power that I have treated over the years.

And, and I get it, but at some point you cross the line.

That's why I talked about this idea of noble cause corruption.

Once you, once you decide it's okay to lie, the lies get bigger and bigger and bigger until they're, um, putting your life in danger.

I mean, that's the problem.

From The Guardian, yeah

... from The Guardian.

He, in talking about Julian, talked about noble cause corruption, which is a police term that refers to this idea of like, you know, you're a cop on the beat, you see a gangster who's in an, an extortion rack, and you can't get him for that-

Mm-hmm

In criminology, it's an actual thing.

Noble cause corruption is when you start off doing something for a noble cause, and then it gets corrupted over time, right? Right.

You know, and so this is this is like a real thing.

Like people study this, right? And I think I think that's what he's that's what he demonstrates so beautifully in this movie.

And he still is doing some good things, right? Like he does work with the disabled with his Neuralink thing or whatever, right? He did provide Starlink to Ukraine.

He shut it off after a while, but...

Well, there's your noble cause corruption.

That's what I'm saying.

It's something that's come up in a number of my films.

It's called noble cause corruption.

Because once you convince yourself that you have a noble cause, once you decide that you're a force for good, you're entitled to bend the rules.

Not just a little bit.

It comes out, by the way, There's another part of the corruption that I do think is interesting.

It's something that's come up in a number of my films.

And it's called noble cause corruption.

Because once you convince yourself that you have a noble cause, like you're making electric cars, and that's solving the problem of global warming, you're helping to Go into space.