Jones began life as a pious man with a social conscience, who refused to judge people on grounds of wealth or race. But his vision of a socialist utopia was ultimately indistinguishable from his own manic desire for domination — and when that control was threatened, he was prepared to bring destruction down on all those around him.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Jones began life as a pious man with a social conscience, who refused to judge people on grounds of wealth or race. But his vision of a socialist utopia was ultimately indistinguishable from his own manic desire for domination — and when that control was threatened, he was prepared to bring destruction down on all those around him." in the context of "Simon Sebag Montefiore, Monsters: History's Most Evil Men and Women (2009), p. 344" to mean that wisdom is timeless.