Episode 5.02: The dangerous need for something outside ourselves that we think completes our selves.

The roots of our devotion to leaders lie in a defective notion of the self and behaviour that reflects a belief that we are made whole by things outside and beyond ourselves. The cult of celebrity and the cult of the leader. We need to unmake this mistaken sense of self to free ourselves from the Hitlers, Stalins and Putins of this world.