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The Trickster Guru

Some have suggested, and not without some merit, that this article has at least in part autobiographical elements. That Watts understood, or came to understand, that people are desperate for meaning, and will attach themselves to someone who gives it and will defend that person to their death. We see this type of behaviour in all religions. And we should stop blaming religions for this behaviour, it is clear it is a human tendency. We simply acknowledge it in ourselves and then work to ensure we don't succumb to it. Could it be the most remarkable life of all is the very life Watt's seemed to detest? A "boring" and consistent life of humility and self-sacrificial love? It is lives like these led by the millions that go by unnoticed, while the masses ignorantly chase after gurus for the meaning of life.

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