barty was round earlier and we were talking about the trope of the mad homeless man as heirophant like in the invisibles, and how its that thing of the god being hidden, where youd least expect it, covered in muck
the hospitable and charitable have entertained angels unawares
There's something missing you feel precarious and scared you need control
Aha! From part 3 of His Illustrious
Ethics:
"This endeavour to do a thing or leave it undone, solely in order to please men, we call ambition, especially when we so eagerly endeavour to please the vulgar, that we do or omit certain things to our own or another's hurt; in other cases it is generally called kindliness."
"This endeavour to bring it about, that our own likes and dislikes should meet with universal approval, is really ambition; wherefore we see that everyone by nature desires,
that the rest of mankind should live according to his own individual disposition: when such a desire is equally present in all,
everyone stands in everyone else's way, and in wishing to be loved or praised by all, all become mutually hateful. [Nota bene - this is basically identical to how Reich defines 'the emotional plague']"
And lastly:
"
Ambition is the immoderate desire of power.
(Explanation: Ambition is the desire, whereby all the emotions are fostered and strengthened; therefore this emotion can [only] with difficulty be overcome. For, so long as a man is bound by
any desire, he is at the same time
necessarily bound by this."