“David Lynch here. I don’t want to have anything to do with Hitler. We all know he was not a good person who did terrible things.”

It sounds like a joke, yet it’s almost painfully real. David Lynch’s plans to build a network of “invincible universities” teaching the philosophy transcendental meditation never struck me as quite convincing or, for that matter, sane. Hearing Lynch and his three little elves explain their educational methods, which, ultimately, strive to engender world peace (uh-huh) during a press conference in Cologne only made it worse. Our editor Stephanie must have spoken for a larger part of the audience when she told Lynch afterwards she had just listened to his speech for three hours and still failed to understand what’s the purpose of the invincible universities. The answer she got was hardly more comprehensible than a Twin Peaks episode.

Lynch and his entourage of gurus started to sweat when they were asked what they meant by their concept of invincibility. They started to sweat more when the German audience got rather agitated in response to the all to familiar talk about an “invincible Germany”. David Lynch himself was sweating the most, because he doesn’t understand any German. Which is why he posted a response to his fury crowd on Nosedef afterwards.

Watch the best outtakes from the conference and Stephs’ interview with Lynch on 99stories.com.

And finally: do these guys know about all this?