The Guru Trap is worse than the Dark Side. It is easy, seductive, and life-affirming. One can easily make all sorts of regrettable decisions without ever realizing it.<\/p>\n
Let me supply a quote from the “Illuminatus!” trilogy by Shea and Wilson:<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s right,\u201d Hagbard agreed. \u201cI wanted to see if you\u2019d trust your own senses or the word of a Natural-Born Leader and Guru like me. You trusted your own senses, and you pass. My put-ons are not just jokes, friend. The hardest thing for a man with dominance genes and piratical heredity like me is to avoid becoming a goddam authority figure. I need all the feedback and information I can get\u2014from men, women, children, gorillas, dolphins, computers, any conscious entity\u2014but nobody contradicts an Authority, you know. Communication is possible only between equals: that\u2019s the first theorem of social cybernetics\u2014and the whole basis of anarchism\u2014and I have to keep knocking down people\u2019s dependence on me or I\u2019ll become a fucking Big Daddy and won\u2019t get accurate communication anymore. If […] all the governments, corporations, universities and armies of the world understood that simple principle, they\u2019d occasionally find out what\u2019s actually going on and stop screwing up every project they start. I am Freeman Hagbard Celine and I am not anybody\u2019s bloody leader. As soon as you fully understand that I\u2019m your equal, and that my shit stinks just like yours, and that I need a lay every few days or I get grouchy and make dumb decisions, and that there is One more trustworthy than all the Buddhas and sages but you have to find him for yourself, then you\u2019ll begin to understand what the [Discordians are] all about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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