Re: Ground Control To Major Max

Hara Ra (harara@shamanics.com)
Thu, 10 Sep 1998 23:42:50 -0700

>I will allow myself one last lapse of judgement, and say to
>Jonathan:
>
>My impression is that your problems started when you began to
>worry about the possibilities of catastrophe and dictatorship;
>that the only way you saw to definitely avoid them was to be
>in a position of total power yourself; and that you have been
>operating under the implicit assumption that you will one day
>*be* all-powerful, this being the reason why you make demands,
>write as if your opinions are all-important, and so forth.

I don't think so. Paranoia and Megalomania are the same disease, just different faces. And intelligence is a handicap in that it makes the scenarios ever more gloriously imaginative.

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