If ever all the dieties, despots and demagogues are gone, we will still be tyrannized by their legacy of dogma, superstition and myth. Whatever primitive fears elicited these fantasies, we must accept their continued prevalence as evidence of our amorphous, latent megalomania. Certainly ideas can be toxic or curative and infect us with their own need, desire, compulsion. However, there must be some innate susceptibility that drives man to pursue an idea, any idea, beyond all reasonable bounds; to fly too close to the sun; to abandon the self in an act of signification; to realize whatever can be realized at whatever cost. Somehow our wildest fantasies always end up stuck in our collective craw.