
Mind control? Surprisingly, too easy: not enough of a challenge. No, it’s not enough for people to be obeisant; they have to want to obey him. They have to worship him because they truly desire it.
“I would make it so others would see me only as I wished them to.”
There. He could construct a desirable persona; a worthy persona; a self that had unequivocally earned the right to attention and love. A way to finally placate a terrible, insatiable hunger for validation. And then others would choose to be his.







