Both triumph and disaster are impostors.
There are moments when it frightens us, threatening to expose us as inauthentic. Well, the big-time impostors we read about in literature run this risk constantly, flirting with destruction, not just humiliation or embarrassment. It's a spectacle that we can't help but find compelling, and it involves a certain level of courage that we sneakily admire, perhaps.
I met another man who considered himself perfect, but he was thoroughly mad; and I do not believe that any of the pretenders to perfection are better than good maniacs. . . for while a man has got a spark of reason left in him, he cannot, unless he is the most impudent of impostors, talk about being perfect.
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.
I find it interesting that there are impostors out on the Internet pretending to be Werner Herzog.
The termination is not based on innocence or guilt, but on biology. The sociopath personality is fraudulent. They are impostors within the human species. Killing a sociopath is equivalent to killing God. Neither exists in reality. They are empty shells of imagination, said Chiron
