[aa-jv]

He is literally a manifestation of the phenomenon described in this book:

https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.469826

"The Authoritarian Personality"

tl;dr - the roots of the authoritarian personality grow fertile in the desire to be free of 'the filth of others'. Altman seems like he'd go crazy if he didn't keep his machine spectacularly clean ..

[accidentallfact]

He was talking about education. I'm pretty sure about it.

[aa-jv]

He devalues and invalidates his fellow human beings, from a position of disdain, too much for my liking. Avoiding his activities.