Understanding Assange
Mike Walker, Colonel USMC, retired
Julian Assange is typically presented as either brilliant devil or hero. The closer truth is that he is a very clever and spoiled adolescent who never grew up. He is much more a mentally unstable lost soul than an evil ogre or shining messiah.
Unfortunately, cleverness has allowed his childish conspiracy visions to overcome the rational behavior required of a responsible member of any society. Julian the child throws tantrums and acts out. He is the eternal enfant terrible hidden behind a well-tailored suit, a disarmingly juvenile smile, and an adult vocabulary.
Julian is the boy-man for whom the rules do not apply. Everyone who gets in his way is the enemy. In fact, everyone who gets in his way is not only the enemy, they are, without exception, connected to the giant cabal aimed directly at Julian Assange. So is it any wonder he is now likely to go to jail for sexually driven crimes in sexually liberal Sweden? No rules apply to Julian other than Julian’s, evidently to include his physicals needs. He is in constant rebellion against a paranoid perception of unfairness caused by societal authority in any form.
Therefore Julian is doomed and a passing phenomenon. He has and will continue to get his Andy Warhol moments of fame, but in the great scheme of things, his successes are unsustainable in the face of his self-destructive egoism. For Julian Assange, the world does revolve around him. Julian is endlessly needy making it hard to believe he is Australian. He should be more the object of pity than anger and we should all feel a bit indebted to him.
We should be grateful that the tool that laid bare a great weakness in our 21st century information systems was such a deeply flawed individual. Think of the future damage that could have been wrought by a truly sinister force if Julian Assange had not forced the adults to divert their attention and clean up a mess that this child as much found as created.
Semper Fi,
Mike
