[HPFGU-Catalogue] Pettigrew

[Sean Dwyer]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 11:53:10AM -0000, CarolynWhite2 wrote:

> "Oh, indeed," agreed Elkins pleasantly. "Indeed. But you know, the 
> two are hardly polar opposites. They're not incompatible in the 
> least. In fact, they're essentially the same position. Inside every 
> sycophant, there's an Evil Overlord just waiting to come out. Have 
> you ever read Fromme, on the totalitarian personality? The type of 
> person who toadies to his superiors, yet bullies his subordinates? 
> Whose abject professions of loyalty and fanatic devotion to 
> charismatic leaders and ideological doctrines are matched only by 
> their equally extreme, yet seemingly-incompatible tendency towards 
> self-serving hypocrisy and back-stabbing betrayal? The sort of 
> person whose fundamental capacity for inhumane behavior is masked by 
> a somewhat sloppy sentimentalism? One which often presents as a self-
> professed love of animals?" 

Which leads one to a *fascinating* reflection on the parallels between Ratty
and Toady. Umbrage is a lot like Pettigrew plus sadistic egomania minus the
cowardice.

-- 
When all you have are foxes, everything looks like a henhouse.