“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.”
― Christopher Hitchens
(Bolding is mine)
In the above quote, replace religion with AAR specifically, or EK management generally. Encapsulates my feelings perfectly. I have a long memory. Email deleted before I finished reading.