Invision

So it was always a question with me. How to be a leader without anyone knowing one is a leader? Or better yet how to be a leader without oneself knowing one is a leader, so one can't turn oneself in under duress.

So the thing was to create lines of communication. I had already studied the concept when I was in DC, in my advisor to the White House guy. For me it was an exercise. I played it as if it was real. How egocentric of me, but at the same time I did not believe it. I suppose rather than a leader I thought of myself as an advisor, dispensing advise on every occasion, purely as theoretical of course. Simultaneously I was playing another game, much bigger than the counter-culture political stuff of the Johnson/Nixon years.

In a way the first was a disguise for the second. The first I practiced through communication with anybody and everybody, through symbolism, answering theoretical questions and posing theoretical propositions, performance theater, event attendance, costume and such like. The second I kept completely secret, with only myself knowing what I was about. Not that others might not guess if they paid close attention, but it was all disguised in fair to middlin' ritual repetition, with enough exactitude to produce a mundane ordinariness, and enough originality to be confusing, and all in full view of the world at large, as the city in which anyone might spy. I was on stage most of the time and thus a constant communicator.

My room mate Ford and I talked politics all the time. I remember we used the tactic of rumor mongering quite often. I had heard that rumor mongering was banned in China.

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