Ham Murabi
Plumbing the Depths
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- Nov 12, 2002
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Once you understand that the late Lt lives for public approval and validation, but is socially too inept to ever enjoy it, his behavior is understandable and fairly predictable.
After committing a public gaffe like the fake death notice, he has to act as if the opinion of others is of no value and all others are fools, unworthy of the faith he placed in them. Since these are the people who must aprove of him, to give him the self worth he needs, its an endless paradox which produces threads like this.
The more people laugh at him, the more he hates them, and the more he needs their approval.
I don't know what's scarier - the fact that you are so dead-on with your evaluation of LT or the fact that you bothered to think about it.

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