I really, really like Gaddafi’s Green Book and find a lot of its ideas about governance fascinating and enlightening regarding the Libyan dream of democracy that was being achieved. However… Colonel, what the fuck? Tangentially related here, but his ideas about gender and sex were also complicated. He supported the general concept of equality between men and women, but very much thought that women were first and foremost child-rearers and…

Complicated figure. He also thought wrestling and boxing were disgusting and upheld Bedouin society as a model for the dissolution of the savagery that is sports entertainment…? Colonel?