It's possible to undermine someone's reputation and effectiveness by conspiring to make them think that they're being conspired against, which also encourages any preexisting tendency toward delusions of grandeur. (where did I put my tin-foil hat?)
from SLATE: >The Slatest Edition WikiLeaks Founder Is Paranoid, Increasingly Alone Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, should be celebrating. His whistleblowers Web site has achieved the notoriety and profile he has long craved, particularly after it released almost 400,000 secret documents on the Iraq war. Yet he sees potential threats in every move he makes, traveling around with a "youthful entourage," including a filmmaker to "document any unpleasant surprises," writes the New York Times. He has convinced himself he is a persecuted man, fighting the power. But some of his oldest allies have turned their backs on him, particularly after he decided to release documents without removing the names of Afghan intelligence sources. He is also still being investigated in Sweden for accusations of rape and molestation. Although the site's volunteers mostly still see him as a visionary, they worry Assange's "increasingly dictatorial, eccentric and capricious style" could threaten his creation. Read original story in The New York Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/world/24assange.html] | Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010 < -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
