James, While it is true that I do one day hope to find myself sucking on Lloyd's titties in an effort to secure for myself some delicious DeMausian milk, I know for certain that I cannot have, as you suggest, a cult-like interest in DeMause and his work. It's impossible. I
know because I've been a life-long user of apple products, and no one who uses macs regularly can be anything but a buoyantly happy and healthy human being.
Let me relate a story. A couple months ago I had a party where a whole bunch of us were sitting in a circle talking this and that. Someone asked me about my interest in psychohistory, and, after
explaining why I don't actually like the term, and after emphatically DIScouraging them from studying history and emphatically ENcouraging them to read books by people who are alive now, I explained the idea of psychoclasses and suggested that one would probably find that those people who are of the helping (advanced) psychoclass used macintosh computer...