>>they grant us a sense of control over situations that would otherwise make
>>us feel helpless.
>
>And I would retort that they give _themselves_ control over us by making
>us feel we need
>
>_them_ to lose this helplessness. This is their root falseness, and their
>cultural eliteness.
Come on, Wade...who is being elitist here? You are the one looking at
"the masses" and saying:
"Suckers, you're all being duped. I know better. I see what you cannot
or choose not to."
In other words, you generate fear and then set youself up
as
the
SHAMAN
Reed
Who likes Eva's statements of state, and thinks he, also, should start
doing something
like it.
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