Honest People Series: Pascal Najadi, an International Banker Who Filed Criminal Charges against President of Switzerland

Life imitates Dostoevsky.

To me personally, watching this interview with Pascal Najadi was Dostoevsky-level cathartic. It was cathartic because it was like watching a child, who is not a child but a ridiculously courageous and smart and highly successful man, come of age and shed delusions right in front of my eyes.

I almost gave it a sub-headline “very rich man discovers mob in the West” but due to his great courage and his dramatic family history, I couldn’t do that, it would have been wrong to do that. He is a brave human being. He deserves applause. But that’s none the less precisely how I felt about it when watching it. A total cognitive dissonance: a mix of tremendous respect for his current undeniable courage—and a scream from here to the moon over my pain of three years, the pain that I didn’t want to feel. Like, how can somebody so obviously smart not see something so obviously true, until now? Why were those of us who saw it early so alone?!

Hence the catharsis. Not judgement—judgement is not my job,…