Word: godhood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years later, id's 3-D bloodfests have spawned a worldwide gaming revolution and made its founders cult heroes and multimillionaires before age 30. Sports cars and magazine covers swiftly followed. Romero in particular wore the mantle of pop-culture godhood with aplomb. If the four founders were, as Wired magazine dubbed them last August, "The Egos at id," then Romero, with his lion's mane of black hair, his Tudor mansion, his Testarossa, BMW and Humvee, was the superego...
Those of you in the print media who are upset with old Joe are taking yourselves too seriously, if not bordering on entertaining delusions of godhood. It's time for a reality check. Did you really think anyone would go to the trouble (not to mention the marketing expense) of creating the Anonymous cover only to reveal the truth immediately upon being asked? After the book was published, the first reaction from your corner was to say the writer had to be one of you. Well, you were right. LYNN CAPEHART San Diego...
With rare exception-such as under the strict terms of obscenity-speech does not need to be proven "worthy" to be protected. Only people with delusions of godhood think that they can determine what products magnanimously will be offered in the "market-place of ideas...
...summary, Ben-Shachar is apparently terrified that speech will be used to "incite the public to violent measures against the government." But in the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes, "every idea is an incitement." Only a person with delusions of godhood would claim to be able to determine what speech must be suppressed, and what "diverse voices" will, magnaminously, be tolerated. --Jol Silversmith...
...wrote, "and you will bow under my feet. Do you think you have the power to stop my will?" The ominous letters persuaded the psychologists that Koresh would come out only on his own terms, probably violent ones. "It is hard to believe that Koresh will abdicate his godhood," the experts concluded, "for a limited notoriety and time behind bars...