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Okay, imagine being a Kennedy.

Imagine that the path your life takes, every iota of it, including the big "key-frames", are vitally important to you: You join the Peace Corps. You run for congress after obsessing over every minor detail, to make your campaign appear flawless, accessible, and imbued with a subdued, worthy sense of popularly-directed power. You consider what to eat, in public and in private.

And why not?: Your /every/ decision is bound-up in the Path to Power And Glory: you are a rat, forever hitting a switch in your brain over all else, that says, "Yes! Yes to the Path to Power!"

I will not disguise that "addiction" plays a part in what I write here. I have experience with amphetamines myself.

Now, imagine that you are Philip K. Dick. You take amphetamines, think on SciFi terms -- not unusual, Hubbard being an example -- and read Greek poetry. /Why not you?/ Why not... Become a hero comparable to Aeneas, but within the confines of your past? Why not rewrite your own history to make yourself like a demigod?

Enter Philip K Dick. A mild man with big ambitions. Done.



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