Dear George,
The Greeks believed that every man had within him a personal “daemon”, an attendant spirit or unique talent, which, if allowed to develop, became the path to individual fulfillment. A man’s daemon could be anything from a talent for philosophizing to a talent for digging ditches. For the Greeks, the good life was the inward journey that gave expression to this daemon.
What was the “good life” for Greeks is anathema to the Corporatist State for the simple reason that the man who has embraced his daemon cannot be frightened. He is free, no matter how oppressive his environment. He marches to his own beat and is impervious to the marching orders drummed into others by the Corporatist State and its media.
Our early Christian Fathers, in their wisdom, saw this daemon as a threat to the rigid dogma they were forcing on the underclasses. So they morphed the daemon into a demon and externalized it as the Devil. Thanks to their efforts, Christians now equate the spark that makes us human with Evil.
Our secular society has gone the Church Fathers one better, by equating the daemon with neurosis, thus reducing the it to a mental disorder, a terrifying prospect for a people obsessed with normality. The last thing the Corporatist State can afford is an inspired ditch digger. An anxious ditch digger is much easier to control.
A fragment from the Gospel of Thomas best expresses the needs of the Corporatist State, “If you find that which is within you, it will save you. If you fail to find that which is within you, it will destroy you.”
The bottom line, George, is that the Corporatist State thrives when its subjects embark on a journey of self-destruction.
Your admirer,
Belacqua Jones
4:52:53 AM 
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