 So, here we go, I'm a child, a tyrant, an emperor, I'm infantile, petulant, moody, but I'm also divine and I'm delusional. I bring fantasy into your life, I bring color, I bring thrills and excitement and risk and the unexpected and the unpredictable. I make your heart thump. I'm a wonder kind, a boastful genius. What do I want from you? I just want to play. Nothing else. Did you hear this? Nothing else. I just want to have fun, that's all. I want us to share the fantasy. Here, here, in front of thousands of people, I renounce reality. I renounce the truth. Let the games begin. And what is my game, you're asking? My game is you are my vastly inferior slave to serve me as I please. And you're also my admiring, all-struck disciple. You must accept me as I am. You must. Otherwise, it's not going to work. You're expected to fully forgive and love me unconditionally. You heard? Unconditionally. Forgive. Love. Unconditionally. And regardless of my conduct or my misconduct, what I do or don't do, action or inaction or mission or commission, even when I inevitably and repeatedly hurt you badly, time and again, you still must forgive me. And you still must love me unconditionally as a mother would do. So here's the thing, I'm immutable, I cannot be changed. I'm set in stone, I'm a rock, I'm a force of nature, I'm an element, I'm a quark. I'm also opinionated. And of course, my opinions are always right. They're founded on research, they're rational and reasoned. No one else's opinions come close to mine. Everyone else is an idiot anyway. So I'm opinionated. I'm opinionated because I'm superior and I'm superior because I'm intelligent. I'm obstinate because I know best and I never make mistakes. Well, I make mistakes. I'm not an idiot. I know I make mistakes. But overall, I get it right. I'm grandiose, but I'm grandiose on good grounds. I'm entitled to be grandiose. It's justified. It's rational. It's true. Don't listen to this idiot vacuum. I'm the next stage in evolution. I'm superhuman. I can't stand people's stupidity. I can't stand how dumb people, how brain dead. I can't stand their foibles, the nonsense. I just want to withdraw. You shouldn't try to change me all the time. You shouldn't try to fix me. You shouldn't try to bargain with me. You're not, first of all, you're not my equal and you don't have this power. It just provokes me, aggravates me, irritates me and you know you can play only with me. Only with me unless I let you play with others and I have no intention to let you play with others as long as you are my playmate. Not when you're no longer my playmate, when you're just my servant, my service provider to use a politically correct phrase. It's okay then. You can play with others. Do anything you want with them, touch leaps. I'm entitled to take anything I want from you. I can do to you and I can do with you anything I wish. I own you. I can break you if I want to. You have no right to protest, to decline, to resist my demands, to go cold on me. You're my property, my chateau. You hang in my larder, your piece of cutlery to dispose of and do with as I please. That you have a personality, that you have, that you have a body who doesn't. Cows have bodies and pigs have personalities. We are not of the same species. You must obey my wishes unthinkingly and promptly because of my superiority. You must never disagree with me. You don't qualify. You don't have the necessary knowledge, background, training. And if your agony pleases me, you must deliver it to me. You must allow me to hurt you. You must allow me to observe your pain and anguish. It's delectable. And you have no right, no right whatsoever. Let this part be very clear. You have no right whatsoever to expect or to demand anything from me. You play hot and cold with me, no deal. If I give you anything, it's because I choose to give you. I give only what I decide to give, usually only as little of my time, my attention, my knowledge and money as is absolutely necessary. I want to keep you hooked. I want to keep you around as my playmate, as long as it lasts. So there's a maintenance dose. I sustain you somehow on your toes, walking on eggshells in the kitchen. That's the maximum I'm willing to do. Anything about that, I can find a replacement. I can find a substitute. You're interchangeable. You're fungible. Don't overestimate yourself. Don't overvalue your contribution. It will be wrong of you and you'll pay the price. Only I decide which game we play. And my decision-making process is not transparent to you. It's based on how capriciously, arbitrarily, bored I am. Maybe how thrilled I am. Maybe how aroused I am. Whatever I am determines the game we play at any given period, at any given time. And external things and internal things are processed by me to settle on the game. That is, that I choose. And you have to adapt. You have to shape-shift. You have to transform. You can't be rigid. You have to hang in there by your handle, you see? You're shocked. If you're fit to play my game, I play with you. If you're not fit to play my game, I lose all interest in you. All the many mugs and cups where you come from. If you refuse to play my game, exactly how and exactly when I want it. Precisely. If you make any demands whatsoever, modifications, if you tinker, if you suggest, if you give advice, if you try to help, whatever, I walk. I walk away before you know it. And I look for a new playmate. More obsequious, playmate who will acquiesce. So many, it's simple really. And it works. It works. It works for both of us. It works for both of us. I can make you hot. You can make my heart race. The caffeine, caffeine probably. I've had no reason to regret any of this over the decades of my life. And you know what? When I compare myself to the overwhelming vast majority of humanity, I'm in good shape. I'm in good place. I'm in really, really good place. And I've spent the time allotted to me on this earth precisely as I had always wanted. My way. My way. All the highway. And now, a little liquidity is all I ask.