"Maybe one day Wright will get where he needs to be."
That's the thing. I think he did. I think he spent his life looking for a book so big and powerful he could use it to ignore anyone he disagreed with, and he found it, and that fulfilled his psychological needs.
(I remember now that I did post about this before. I compared him to the author of Sinfest, who has this whole thing going where he's afraid that sexuality is inherently evil and corrupting. He became a TERF, then later a QAnon supporter, and I think that fulfilled his needs by giving him a way to fight back against his vision of evil sex.)
My need is probably to believe that there's no such thing as a thing that can't be killed. That's why my posts on the subject are so emotional and so undignified. If I ever end up like Wright, it will probably be a form of iconoclasm.
Then again, Tadeusz Borowski as described in The Captive Mind is someone who fulfilled his need. He wanted to live in a world where the Holocaust would never again be possible, and he convinced himself he'd created that path by becoming a Soviet propagandist. He broke out of that in the end, albeit in the worst, most despairing way possible.
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That's the thing. I think he did. I think he spent his life looking for a book so big and powerful he could use it to ignore anyone he disagreed with, and he found it, and that fulfilled his psychological needs.
(I remember now that I did post about this before. I compared him to the author of Sinfest, who has this whole thing going where he's afraid that sexuality is inherently evil and corrupting. He became a TERF, then later a QAnon supporter, and I think that fulfilled his needs by giving him a way to fight back against his vision of evil sex.)
My need is probably to believe that there's no such thing as a thing that can't be killed. That's why my posts on the subject are so emotional and so undignified. If I ever end up like Wright, it will probably be a form of iconoclasm.
Then again, Tadeusz Borowski as described in The Captive Mind is someone who fulfilled his need. He wanted to live in a world where the Holocaust would never again be possible, and he convinced himself he'd created that path by becoming a Soviet propagandist. He broke out of that in the end, albeit in the worst, most despairing way possible.